IP


  1. Intellectual Property.

  2. 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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British Dictionary definitions for IP

IP

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

  2. law intellectual property

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Scientific definitions for IP

IP

  1. 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.

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