RIP

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Contents 1 Biology 2 Mathematics 3 Computers 4 Military 5 Music 6 Other uses

R.I.P. is an abbreviation for Requiescat in pace, a three-word prayer commonly used on tombstones and often translated as "Rest in peace".

R.I.P. or RIP may also refer to:

[edit] Biology

• Regulated intramembrane proteolysis, a biochemical process which regulates a semipermeable membrane
• Repeat induced point-mutation, a process by which DNA in Neurospora crassa accumulates mutations
• Ribosome inhibiting protein, a protein that controls ribosomes

[edit] Mathematics

• Restricted isometry property

[edit] Computers

• Raster image processor, a component used in a printing system which produces a bitmap
• Recovery Is Possible, a Linux distribution
• Remote imaging protocol, a method of using graphics instead of text on a Bulletin Board System
• Routing Information Protocol, a protocol used in computer networks
• Row instruction pointer, a special purpose processor register in network processors
• Register instruction pointer, in the x86-64 instruction sets

[edit] Military

• R.I.P. cartridge (Round, Irritant, Personnel), or tear-gas cartridge, a specialist shotgun ammunition
• Ranger Indoctrination Program, a U.S. Army program requirement for assignment to a Ranger battalion

[edit] Music

• R.I.P. (Coroner album), a 1987 album by thrash metal band Coroner
• R.I.P. (Rocket from the Crypt album), a 2008 album of a 2005 live performance by Rocket from the Crypt

[edit] Other uses

• "R.I.P." (story), a 1998 short story by Poppy Z. Brite
• Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, a UK act of Parliament
• Royal Institute of Philosophy, a UK educational institution

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