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Ip Chun (叶准)

Ip Chun (叶准), born 25 July 1924 in Foshan, is a Hong Kong Wing Chun master, eldest son of Ip Man, who began teaching in Hong Kong in the late 1960s, led the Wing Chun Athletic Association, and was named a Lingnan University Honorary Fellow in 2020.

IP code

The IP code, often called the ingress protection or IP rating, is an IEC 60529 classification of how well an electrical enclosure blocks dust and water.

IP Flow Information Export

IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) is an IETF standard protocol for transmitting IP traffic flow statistics from network devices to a collecting process, based on Cisco's NetFlow version 9.

IP fragmentation

IP fragmentation is the process by which the Internet Protocol divides a datagram too large for a link's MTU into smaller packets, which are reassembled at the destination host.

Ip Man (叶问)

Ip Man (葉問, 1893–1972) was a Foshan-born Wing Chun grandmaster who taught publicly in Hong Kong from 1949 and trained Bruce Lee; since 2008 he is also the subject of the nationalist Ip Man film series and over ten other films.

Ip Man (叶问) (film series)

Ip Man (叶问) film series: four Hong Kong martial arts films (2008–2019) starring Donnie Yen as Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man, directed by Wilson Yip, with choreography by Sammo Hung and Yuen Woo-Ping, plus the Master Z spin-off.

Ip Man (叶问) (film)

Ip Man (葉問) is a 2008 Hong Kong biographical kung fu film directed by Wilson Yip, starring Donnie Yen as Wing Chun grandmaster Yip Man in Japanese-occupied Foshan; it won the 28th Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film and spawned a four-film franchise.

Ip Man 2 (叶问2)

Ip Man 2 (叶问2:宗师传奇) is a 2010 Wilson Yip martial arts film starring Donnie Yen as Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man in 1950s Hong Kong, with Sammo Hung as Hung Ga master Hung Chun-nam; it grossed 232.34 million RMB in mainland China, sixth for 2010.

Ip Man 3

Ip Man 3 is a 2015 Hong Kong 3D martial arts film starring Donnie Yen as Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man, featuring a much-publicized fight with Mike Tyson.

Ip Man 4: The Finale

Ip Man 4: The Finale (叶问4:完结篇) is the 2019 Wilson Yip martial arts film closing Donnie Yen's Ip Man series, set in 1964 San Francisco, grossing $176 million worldwide and winning two Hong Kong Film Awards.

IP multicast

IP multicast, or Internet Protocol multicast, is a method of sending one IP stream to many receivers at once, delivering datagrams to a host group identified by a single destination address.

IP Multimedia Subsystem

The IP Multimedia Subsystem, or IMS, is a 3GPP-standardized core-network architecture, specified in TS 23.228, that operators use to deliver voice, video, and messaging over LTE, 5G, and fixed networks.

IP over Avian Carriers

IP over Avian Carriers, or IPoAC, is a joke networking protocol defined in RFC 1149 on April 1, 1990, which specifies transmitting IP datagrams by homing pigeons.

IP Pegasi

IP Pegasi is an eclipsing dwarf nova, a cataclysmic variable where a white dwarf accretes from a companion, with a 3.8-hour period and outbursts every 100 days.

IP-Adapter and identity conditioning

IP-Adapter is a lightweight adapter introduced by Tencent AI Lab in 2023 that adds image-prompt conditioning to frozen text-to-image diffusion models through decoupled cross-attention layers.

IPA vowel chart with audio

IPA vowel chart with audio: interactive versions of the International Phonetic Association's vowel quadrilateral, charting 28 vowels by height, backness, and rounding, with recordings by Ladefoged, Wells, Esling, House, and Wikimedia contributors.

IPA-CPP trial

IPA-CPP (NCT02867774) was a University of Michigan pilot trial testing an 8-week supervised moderate-intensity exercise program for pain, function, and quality of life in women with chronic pelvic pain.

iPACK block

The iPACK block, short for infiltration between the popliteal artery and capsule of the knee, is an ultrasound-guided technique relieving posterior knee pain after knee replacement while sparing motor function.

IPad

iPad, also known as Apple iPad, is a line of tablet computers made by Apple Inc., first announced in January 2010 and now sold in four categories: iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad, and iPad mini.

IPad (10th generation)

The iPad (10th generation), also called the iPad 10.9-inch, is an Apple tablet released in 2022 with a redesigned flat-edge body, 10.9-inch display, A14 Bionic chip, and USB-C.

IPad (11th generation)

The iPad (11th generation), marketed by Apple as iPad (A16), is an entry-level tablet released in March 2025 with an A16 chip and 128GB base storage.

IPad (1st generation)

The iPad (1st generation), also known as the original iPad, is a tablet computer announced by Apple in 2010 and released in the US on April 3, 2010.

IPad (3rd generation)

The iPad (3rd generation), marketed by Apple as "the new iPad", is a 9.7-inch tablet released in March 2012 with a Retina display and A5X chip.

IPad (4th generation)

The iPad (4th generation), marketed as the iPad with Retina display, is a tablet computer Apple released in November 2012 with a faster A6X chip and Lightning connector.

IPad (5th generation)

The iPad (5th generation), commonly called the 2017 iPad, is an entry-level Apple tablet released in March 2017, combining the iPad Air body with the A9 chip.

IPad (6th generation)

The sixth-generation iPad, also called the 2018 iPad, is a 9.7-inch tablet announced by Apple in 2018 with Apple Pencil support and an A10 Fusion chip.

IPad (7th generation)

The iPad (7th generation), also called iPad 7, is an entry-level Apple tablet announced in September 2019, replacing the 9.7-inch iPad 6 with a 10.2-inch display.

IPad (8th generation)

The iPad (8th generation), also known as iPad 8, is Apple's entry-level 10.2-inch tablet, released in September 2020 at $329 with the A12 Bionic chip and Neural Engine.

IPad 2

The iPad 2, Apple's second-generation tablet, went on sale in March 2011 with a body 33 percent thinner than the original, a dual-core A5 chip, and two cameras for FaceTime.

IPad Air (4th generation)

The iPad Air (4th generation) is a tablet computer Apple announced in September 2020, the first Air with an all-screen design and A14 Bionic chip.