IP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does IP mean? 

• IP (noun)
  The noun IP has 1 sense:

1. the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information

  Familiarity information: IP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

informatics; information processing; information science; IP

Hypernyms ("IP" is a kind of...):

science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

Meronyms (parts of "IP"):

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Domain member category:

queue ((information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "IP"):

human language technology; natural language processing; NLP (the branch of information science that deals with natural language information)

cybernetics ((biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems))

 Context examples 

Co-immunoprecipitation (Co-IP) is a popular technique for protein interaction discovery.

(Co-Immunoprecipitation, NCI Thesaurus)

The entity that oversees global IP address allocation, root zone management for the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet protocol assignments.

(Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, NCI Thesaurus)

This family of chemokines also includes IL-8, platelet factor 4 (PF-4), beta-thromboglobulin (b-TG), IP-10, and ENA-78.

(Chemokine (C-X-C Motif) Ligand 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Users' browsers and other clients sent requests to Dyn to resolve the respective web sites' domain names to an IP, but did not get a reply within the time required.

(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)

Also called IP.

(Intraperitoneal, NCI Dictionary)

PGI2, or prostacyclin, synthesized by prostacyclin synthase, has properties opposite those of thromboxane, causing vasodilation and a reduction in clotting through the IP receptor, causing thromboxanes and PGI2 to act in opposition to each other.

(Eicosanoid Metabolism Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

In a co-IP the target antigen precipitated by the antibody "co-precipitates" a binding partner/protein complex from a lysate.

(Co-Immunoprecipitation, NCI Thesaurus)