Examples of “IP address” in a Sentence

noun A number assigned to a device so that other devices on a network can find it and send data to it, in the same way a postal address tells a courier where to deliver a parcel.

• The support agent asked me to read out the router's IP address before she could look at the fault.
• Every phone, laptop and printer on the office network has its own IP address.

noun Such a number treated as a rough indicator of where a person or device is connecting from, used by websites to guess a visitor's country or region.

• The video would not play because my IP address showed I was outside the country it was licensed in.