Which one is correct?
- visitors IP
- visitor IPs
- visitors IPs
To make things clear: a number of users visit a website. I want to say each IP of each visitor as a whole.
In other words what do you call this pack:
[IP1, IP2, IP3, ...]
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1...or D) none of the above.– Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_Commented Jul 31, 2018 at 21:03
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And are you talking about one visitor (visitor's IPs) or multiple visitors (visitors' IPs)? This assumes there are multiple IPs per visitor.– Roger SinasohnCommented Jul 31, 2018 at 21:15
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One IP per visitor– MahozadCommented Jul 31, 2018 at 21:40
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I would call that pack a list of visitors' IP addresses
Visitors because there are multiple visitors.
Apostrophe because those IP addresses are considered to be belonging to the visitors.
IP addresses rather than just IPs because it's more correct. This part is optional, I guess...
"Visitors' IPs" is correct.
"Visitors IP" is not correct because each visitor has his/her own IP, which means that "IP" should be plural.
"Visitor IPs" is less specific than you may want to be because multiple visitors are present. This seems to only imply you have multiple IP addresses and not necessarily visitors to go with them.
"Visitors' IPs" is correct because it correctly shows there are multiple visitors and multiple IPs. This allows for each visitor to have at least one IP address to his/herself.
I also suggest you write "Visitors' IP Addresses" instead of "visitors' IPs."
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