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English
Etymology
Initialisms (see definitions).
Pronunciation
Adjective
IP (not comparable)
- (medicine) Initialism of intraperitoneal.
Noun
IP (countable and uncountable, plural IPs)
- (law, countable and uncountable) Initialism of intellectual property.
In the past year, Disney has announced 4 sequels and one reboot, but not a single new IP
- (law, uncountable) Initialism of indigenous peoples.
- (motion picture, countable) Initialism of interpositive.
- (baseball, countable, invariant) Initialism of innings pitched (the statistic reporting the number of innings pitched by a pitcher.)
- (biology, uncountable) Initialism of immunoprecipitation.
- (computing) Initialism of insertion point (where text, etc. will be added in a document).
- (computing) Initialism of instruction pointer (CPU register).
- (grammar, X-bar theory) Initialism of inflectional phrase.
- Hypernym: XP
- (medicine) Initialism of incontinentia pigmenti.
- Initialism of instrument panel.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of injured party.
- (cryptography) Initialism of initial permutation.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of IP address.
- (wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) An unregistered user identified by their IP address.
- Synonym: anon
This IP made a disruptive edit!
- (US, military, initialism, slang) An Iraqi police officer, or the Iraqi police as a whole.
- (US, military, initialism, slang) Initialism of Irish pennant.
- Abbreviation of inpatient.
- Antonym: OP
Proper noun
IP
- (Internet, networking) Initialism of Internet Protocol.
IP address
- Initialism of Ingress Protection Rating.
- Initialism of International Paper.
Derived terms
Translations
Phrase
IP
- (prison) Initialism of in possession.
2014, Linda Gask, Carolyn Chew-Graham, ABC of Anxiety and Depression, page 37:Prison nursing staff will carefully evaluate whether an individual should have 'IP' (in possession) medication.
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Indonesian
Pronunciation
Noun
IP
- (Internet) Ellipsis of IP address.
- (education) Initialism of ilmu pemerintahan.
- (education) Initialism of indeks prestasi.