IP address

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Etymology

Short for Internet Protocol address.

Pronunciation

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Noun

IP address (plural IP addresses)

1. (Internet) A number assigned to each computer's or other device's network interface, which are active on a network. supporting the Internet Protocol, in order to distinguish each network interface, and hence each networked device) from every other network interface anywhere on the network.

Usage notes

When necessary, the specific version of the Internet Protocol being used is often stated:

• IPv4 address (32 bits, normally written out in dotted decimal form, e.g. 198.51.100.56).
• IPv6 address (128 bits, normally written out as eight groups of four hexadecimal digits, e.g. 2001:db8:85a3::8a2e:370:7334).

Synonyms

• IP number

Related terms

• internet
• Internet Protocol
• IP
• dynamic IP address
• static IP address

Translations

number assigned to each computer's network interface

Arabic: عُنْوَان آي بِي m (ʕunwān ʔay bī) Basque: IP helbide Catalan: adreça IP Chinese: Mandarin: IP地址 (āipì dìzhǐ), IP位址 (āipì wèizhǐ) Danish: IP-adresse (da) c Dutch: IP-adres (nl) n Esperanto: IP-adreso Faroese: IP-adressa Finnish: IP-osoite (fi) French: adresse IP (fr) f Galician: enderezo IP (gl) m German: IP-Adresse (de) f Greek: ιστοδιεύθυνση f (istodiéfthynsi), διεύθυνση ΔΠ f (diéfthynsi DP), διεύθυνση IP (el) f (diéfthynsi IP) Hindi: आइपी ऍड्रैस (āipī ĕḍrais) Hungarian: IP-cím (hu) Icelandic: IP-tala f, vistfang n, IP-númer n Indonesian: alamat IP Japanese: ＩＰアドレス (aipī-adoresu), アイピーアドレス (ja) (aipī-adoresu), IPアドレス (ja) (aipī-adoresu) Korean: IP 주소 (aipi ​​juso), 아이피 주소 (aipi juso) Portuguese: endereço IP Romanian: adresă IP Russian: IP-а́дрес (ru) m (IP-ádres), айпѝ-а́дрес m (ajpì-ádres), айпи́ (ru) m (ajpí) (slang) Spanish: dirección IP (es) f Swedish: IP-adress (sv) c Ukrainian: IP-адре́са f (IP-adrésa), айпі̀-адре́са f (ajpì-adrésa), айпі́ m (ajpí) (slang) Xibe: ᡞᠠ ᡦᡞ ᡥᡝᠪᡩᡝᡧᡝᠷᡝ ᠪᠠ (ai pi hebdešere ba)

See also

• OSI
• ping

Anagrams

• dispreads, disspread