RIP

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'RIP' may stand for:

• "Rest in peace" (from Latin requiescat in pace), a prayer which typically appears on tombstones
• Routing Information Protocol, a routing protocol used in computer networks
• R.I.P. (Rock in Peace), a rare AC/DC song from 1976
• Ranger Indoctrination Program, a U.S. Army program required for enlisted personnel prior to assignment to a Ranger battalion
• Raster image processor, a component used in a printing system which produces a bitmap
• Recovery Is Possible, a Linux distribution
• Register instruction pointer, in the x64 instruction sets
• Row Instruction pointer, a special purpose register in network processors
• Regulated intramembrane proteolysis, a biochemical process during which protein domains are cleaved inside a lipid bilayer, releasing the intracellular domain
• Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, a UK act of Parliament
• Remote imaging protocol or "RIPscrip", a method of using graphics instead of text on a BBS
• Repeat induced point-mutation
• Ribosome inhibiting protein, in molecular biology
• Rogue Island Police, an enemy group in City of Villains
• R.I.P. cartridge (Round Irritant Personnel), specialist shotgun ammunition
• Royal Institute of Philosophy, a UK institution
• Rust in Peace, fourth studio album by Megadeth
• R.I.P. (album), an album by thrash metal band Coroner

[edit] See also

• Rip current - a strong surface flow of water returning seaward from near the shore