isp
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
noun
Initialism of Internet Service Provider (a company that provides Internet access for a fee).
noun
Initialism of Interface Segregation Principle, one of the five SOLID principles of programming.
noun
Iₛₚ, the specific impulse of a rocket engine.
noun
symbol
Example Sentences
- "Upon my glorious ISP homepage is a wonderful piece of wisdumb […]"
- "Virgin Media, one of the UK's largest ISPs, has agreed to forward British music industry nastygrams to subscribers suspected of illegal file-swapping. […] But left undiscussed is the core question of why Virgin is whoring itself out like this; the law doesn't require it, and passing on letters from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) won't make an ISP more dosh. Or will it?"
- "Status code 451 can be used by a website such as Facebook or Twitter, or by network intermediaries like a firewall or ISP. […] Take, for example, the U.K. government’s decision in 2012 to force ISPs to block torrent site The Pirate Bay. Instead of throwing up a 403 Forbidden code, ISPs could instead return 451 to make it clear why their customers can’t see specific content."
Usage
- British usage