'RIP' may stand for: · "Rest in peace" (from Latin requiescat in pace), a prayer which typically appears on tombstones · "Rock In Peace", a rare AC/DC song from 1976 · Ranger Indoctrination Program, a U.S. Army program required for enlisted personnel prior to assignment to a Ranger battalion · Rapid interface prototyping, a software development methodology whereby a common set of user interface components are prebuilt, and assembled with the assistance of the programmer · Raster image processor, a component used in a printing system which produces a bitmap · Recovery Is Possible, a Linux distribution · Register instruction pointer, in the x64 instruction sets · Row Instruction pointer, a special purpose register in network processors · Regulated intramembrane proteolysis, a biochemical process during which protein domains are cleaved inside a lipid bilayer, releasing th