TCP/IP

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abbreviation

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol: a communications protocol for computer networks, the main protocol for the internet.

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Origin of TCP/IP

First recorded in 1980–85

Words nearby TCP/IP

tchotchke, tchr., TCM, TCO, TCP, TCP/IP, TCS, TD, TDA, t.d.c., TDD

How to use TCP/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

Scientific definitions for TCP/IP

TCP/IP

Short for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. A suite of protocols for communication between computers, specifying standards for transmitting data over networks and used as the basis for standard Internet protocols.