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title: "What do you mean by IP address?"  
description: "What do you mean by IP address?"  
author: "Ronan Jone"  
published: 2018-03-01  
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category: "programming"  
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# What do you mean by IP address?

## Answers

### Answer by Arti Mishra

An [IP address](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/100260/how-to-get-my-ip-address), short for [Internet](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/44099/best-internet-hobby) [Protocol](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1027/what-attachments-protocol-will-be-used-in-windows-communication-foundation) address, is an identifying number for a piece of [network](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/342247/choosing-the-right-business-network-solution-for-growth) hardware. In other words we can [say](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/80701/is-it-difficult-to-just-say-no) that, an IP address provides an [identity](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13090/icon-the-identity-of-your-brand) to a networked [device](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/331690/how-much-time-should-we-spend-on-your-devices-every-day). Having an IP address allows a device to communicate with other [devices](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2581/android-and-google-nest-devices-can-now-communicate-with-matter) over an IP-based network like the internet. Most [IP addresses](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/157830/what-is-dhcp-and-what-are-some-of-the-benefits-of-using-dhcp-to-manage-ip-addresses-on-a-network) look like this: 154.101.43.121


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