IE
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- noun
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Internet Explorer
- I found that it was a tab I had opened in IE that was causing the drain.
Examples
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If you experience issues, try clearing the cache in IE to improve performance.
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To access the latest features, you need to update IE to the most recent version.
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So to save time, we'll write IE, right?
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We made changes in August to do this for IE 10 and Windows 8.
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If you require IE 6 or IE 7 for your mission critical tasks,
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The Internet Explorer in Desktop is the good ol' IE; it should be very familiar to most.
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It's actually a nightmare when you use IE 9.0 on a wide gamut monitor.
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Suddenly, without warning or fanfare, Windows IE 8 just vanishes the active window.
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Many (80.3%) patients had been referred from other hospitals for management of IE and were already being treated for that illness.
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Since initiating the IE/ECSE MAT personnel preparation program at MSU, the program has grown rapidly.
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Synonyms
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A web browser Microsoft made that people used on Windows computers from 1995 to 2022
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A web browser made by Microsoft for Windows computers
Surface Forms
Morphology
IE = Internet Explorer (semi-transparent) = I + E
IE is a direct initialism of the product name 'Internet Explorer', so knowing the name gives the meaning. [Postprocessing: changed transparency from 'transparent' to 'semi-transparent' for abbreviation]
Etymology
The word IE is a short form of Internet Explorer, where Internet contains inter meaning 'between' and Explorer is like the word explore, meaning 'to look around'. So IE names Microsoft's web browser for viewing websites, which is why people often talk about switching from IE to newer browsers.