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IP

IP is the initialism of intraperitoneal.

IP is the initialism of intellectual property.

IP is the initialism of Indigenous peoples.

IP is the initialism of interpositive.

IP is the initialism of innings pitched (“the statistic reporting the number of innings pitched.

IP is the initialism of immunoprecipitation.

Noun

IP (countable and uncountable, plural IPs)

  1. (Internet, metonymically, wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) An unregistered user identified by their IP address.
    • This IP made a disruptive edit!
    Synonyms:
    anon
  2. (US, initialism, slang) An Iraqi police officer, or the Iraqi police as a whole.

Meaning of intraperitoneal

Adjective

intraperitoneal (not comparable)

  1. Within the cavity of the peritoneum.
    • Intraperitoneal injections of a strong solution produce fibrohemorrhagic peritonitis of varying intensity, according to the strength of the solution; while intraperitoneal injections of small quantities of a diluted solution of formalin induce a chronic peritonitis with great connective tissue...1901 December, E. Q. THORNTON M.D., “PRACTICAL THERAPEUTIC REFERENDUM”, in PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE. A QUARTERLY DIGEST OF ADVANCES DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SCIENCES....

Meaning of intellectual property

Noun

intellectual property (usually uncountable, plural intellectual properties)

  1. (usually) A kind of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect, such as patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
    • According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal...2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55
    Synonyms:
    IP
  2. (countable, usually) Any individual work that is protected under intellectual property law.
    • One area of current change concerns intellectual properties and intellectual property rights.
      "Intellectual Property Rights in Agriculture"

Proper noun capitalized: Ip

Ip (plural Ips)

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of IP

Antonyms

Forms of IP

Noun
pluralIPs
Proper noun
pluralIps

Origin of IP

Initialisms (see definitions).

Borrowed from Cantonese 葉／叶 (jip⁶).

Words formed from IP

Phrases with IP

6 more phrasesFewer phrases

Questions about IP

What does IP mean?
IP means an unregistered user identified by their IP address.
What is IP the initialism of?
IP is the initialism of intraperitoneal.
What part of speech is IP?
IP can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of IP?
The plural of IP is IPs.

Words near IP in the dictionary

  1. ioxithalamate
  2. ioxithalamates
  3. ioxithalamic acid
  4. ioy
  5. ioyned
  6. IP
  7. IP address
  8. IP addresses
  9. IP camera
  10. IP cameras
  11. IP in IP

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: IP (page history and authors); Ip (page history and authors); intraperitoneal (page history and authors); intellectual property (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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