protocol
IPA: prˈoʊtʌkɑɫ
noun
- (now chiefly historical) The minutes, or official record, of a negotiation or transaction; especially a document drawn up officially which forms the legal basis for subsequent agreements based on it.
- (international law, now rare) An official record of a diplomatic meeting or negotiation; later specifically, a draft document setting out agreements to be signed into force by a subsequent formal treaty.
- (international law) An amendment to an official treaty.
- The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page.
- The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc.
- (sciences) The original notes of observations made during an experiment.
- (sciences) The precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment.
- The official rules and guidelines for heads of state and other dignitaries, governing accepted behaviour in relations with other diplomatic representatives or over affairs of state.
- (by extension) An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.
- (computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.
- (medicine) The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order.
- (Roman Catholicism) The introduction of a liturgical preface, immediately following the Sursum corda dialogue.
- (object-oriented programming) In some programming languages, a data type declaring a set of members that must be implemented by a class or other data type.
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To make a protocol of.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To make or write protocols, or first drafts; to issue protocols.
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Examples of "protocol" in Sentences
- “The word protocol means ‘manners,’” Miss Crum said.
- The word protocol refers to a strict code of behavior within a rigidly hierarchical group such as the military or the diplomatic corps.
- The more generic url path would match the later element. url [@protocol] matches URL elements that have a protocol attribute, no matter what its value is.
- December 22 column on the rise of what he calls a protocol economy displays the common habits of error and fuddled logic that Brooks routinely employs to assert that the sky is green.
- In Brazil, for example, officials initially questioned the need to measure corporate-level greenhouse gases, while in China the word "protocol" triggered alarm as it translates in Mandarin into mandatory action.
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