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Intellectual Property.

Internet Protocol: a communications protocol for computers connected to a network, especially the internet, specifying the format for addresses and units of transmitted data.See also TCP/IP.

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Words nearby IP

-ious, IOW, Iowa, Iowa City, Iowan, IP, IPA, iPad, IP address, Ipatieff, IPCC

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How to use IP in a sentence

Furthermore, checking online IP reputation services reveals that they have been used by malware operators in the past.
No, North Korea Didn’t Hack Sony|Marc Rogers|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Pyongyang hackers, according to numerous reports, used Chinese IP addresses for their attacks on Sony.
U.S. Should Make North Korea Pay for Sony Hack|Gordon G. Chang|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This is the age of satellites and radars and Google Earth, of cellphone cameras (and cellphone towers) and IP addresses.
Flight 370 And Our Unsolved Mystery Obsession|Emily Shire|March 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Included in these documents were Hong Kong and Chinese IP addresses that the NSA was surveilling.
Snowden’s Beijing Benefactors?|Gordon G. Chang|January 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Ip Man suffers heartbreaking losses in the war, and the heyday of kung fu grandmasters is long gone.
Tony Leung on His Journey to Kung Fu Spirituality in ‘The Grandmaster’|Jean Trinh|August 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
"I tomed in a s'ip, and 'ou my mammy now," said the child, looking round the cosy room with perfect content.
A Sailor's Lass|Emma Leslie
The air was rocking; moreover, with the heavier waves came a sharp zzzz-ip!
The Long Roll|Mary Johnston
"Lo" yells with unaffected glee when his foe falls back, and it sometimes sounds not unlike the "yi-i-i-ip" of the rebels in '63.
Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life|Charles King
Sakkut was a title of the god Nin-ip, and we gather from Amos that it also represented Malik "the king."
Patriarchal Palestine|Archibald Henry Sayce
Hassard, "fet not hassard nor rioter" (IP,320,c); so in original.
Early English Dramatists--Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others|Various

British Dictionary definitions for IP

abbreviation for

internet protocol: a code used to label packets of data sent across the internet, identifying both the sending and the receiving computers

law intellectual property

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Scientific definitions for IP

Short for Internet Protocol. A protocol that specifies the way data is broken into packets and the way those packets are addressed for transmission. See more at TCP/IP.