dotted decimal notation
Java
The notation used to represent the four byte values of an IP address. Each byte is represented as a value between 0 and 255, for instance 129.12.0.1. The most-significant byte is written first.
Telecommunications
The syntactic representation for a 32-bit integer that consists of four 8-bit numbers written in base 10 with periods (dots) separating them. Note: The dotted decimal notation is used to represent IP addresses in the Internet. [2382-pt.35]