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IPC

IPC is the initialism of Integrated Physics and Chemistry.

IPC is the initialism of interprocess communication.

IPC is the initialism of Indian Penal Code.

IPC is the initialism of International Paralympic Committee.

IPC is the initialism of International Publishing Company.

Meaning of interprocess communication

Noun

interprocess communication (usually uncountable, plural interprocess communications)

  1. (usually) A set of techniques for the exchange of data among two or more threads in one or more processes.
    • FreeBSD provides a rich set of interprocess-communication facilities intended to support the construction of distributed programs built on top of communications primitives.2014, Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil, Robert N.M. Watson, The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 593
    Synonyms:
    IPC

Questions about IPC

What is IPC the initialism of?
IPC is the initialism of Integrated Physics and Chemistry.

Words near IPC in the dictionary

  1. IPAT
  2. ipatasertib
  3. Ipatele
  4. ipazilide
  5. IPBX
  6. IPC
  7. IPCC
  8. IPCF
  9. ipconazole
  10. IPD
  11. IPDs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: IPC (page history and authors); interprocess communication (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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