RIP

Etymology 1
and an.

Usage notes

 * The phrase is never used unironically in reference to actual sleep or rest for the living; it refers only to the dead.
 * Typically found as an epitaph on a tombstone or in an obituary (and hence on graves in Halloween decorations, cartoons, etc.).
 * The phrase is sometimes used as an epithet when referring to a deceased person, as in “This university was founded by, RIP.”
 * Also used as an indirect way of stating that someone or something is (literally or figuratively) dead.

Translations

 * Catalan: REP
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: RIV
 * Esperanto: RP
 * French:
 * Galician: DEP
 * German: RIF
 * Hebrew: ע״ה
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Spanish: DEP, Q.E.P.D.,
 * Tagalog: SLN

Proper noun

 * 1) Routing information protocol, a dynamic routing protocol used in local and wide area networks.

Etymology 3
Originally coined in Selker et al. (1987) as an acronym for, which was later renamed in Cambareri et al. (1989).

Noun

 * 1)  Repeat-induced point mutation, a process by which both copies of duplicated sequences are mutated.