IP
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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How to use IP in a sentence
These special numbers are called Internet Protocol, or IP, addresses.
British Dictionary definitions for IP
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.
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