IP address

American  

noun

Computers.

1. a code that identifies a computer network or a particular computer or other device on a network, consisting of four numbers separated by periods.

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IP address British  

noun

1. computing internet protocol address: the numeric code that identifies all computers that are connected to the internet

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IP address Scientific  

1. The numerical sequence that serves as an identifier for an Internet server. An IP address appears as a series of four groups of numbers separated by dots. The first group is a number between 1 and 255 and the other groups are a number between 0 and 255, such as 192.135.174.1. Every server has its own unique address.

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IP address

The court heard that MacPherson was arrested after police identified his IP address as being used to share the material online.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

High Country News was unable to determine the platform’s owner or the owner of its website’s IP address; the website is opaque, with no contact information listed.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026

This defense has borne fruit in other Strike 3 cases, in which defendants successfully argued simply having an IP address that was used to infringe wasn’t enough to prove they committed the infringements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

A VPN with an American IP address may be a virtual server hosted outside the United States, but it still assigns users a U.S.-based IP address.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

I always paid in cash, so my machine ID was as untraceable as my IP address, which was changing all the time.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin