Protocolary
noun
1.
the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
2.
an original draft, minute, or record from which a document, especially a treaty, is prepared.
3.
a supplementary international agreement.
4.
an agreement between states.
5.
an annex to a treaty giving data relating to it.
6.
Medicine/Medical. the plan for carrying out a scientific study or a patient’s treatment regimen.
7.
Computers. a set of rules governing the format of messages that are exchanged between computers.
8.
Also called protocol statement, protocol sentence, protocol proposition. Philosophy. a statement reporting an observation or experience in the most fundamental terms without interpretation: sometimes taken as the basis of empirical verification, as of scientific laws.
verb (used without object)
9.
to draft or issue a protocol.
noun
1.
the formal etiquette and code of behaviour, precedence, and procedure for state and diplomatic ceremonies
2.
a memorandum or record of an agreement, esp one reached in international negotiations, a meeting, etc
3.
(chiefly US)
a record of data or observations on a particular experiment or proceeding
an annexe appended to a treaty to deal with subsidiary matters or to render the treaty more lucid
a formal international agreement or understanding on some matter
4.
an amendment to a treaty or convention
5.
(philosophy) a statement that is immediately verifiable by experience In full protocol statement See logical positivism
6.
(computing) the set form in which data must be presented for handling by a particular computer configuration, esp in the transmission of information between different computer systems
protocol pro·to·col (prō’tə-kôl’, -kōl’)
n.
The plan for a course of medical treatment or for a scientific experiment.
protocol
(prō’tə-kôl’, -kōl’)
The plan for a course of medical treatment or for a scientific experiment.
A set of standardized procedures for transmitting or storing data, especially those used in regulating data transmission between computers or peripherals.
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- Protocol data unit
(PDU) A packet of data passed across a network. The term implies a specific layer of the OSI seven layer model and a specific protocol. (1994-10-13)
- Protocol layer
networking The software and/or hardware environment of two or more communications devices or computers in which a particular network protocol operates. A network connection may be thought of as a set of more or less independent protocols, each in a different layer or level. The lowest layer governs direct host-to-host communication between the hardware at […]
- Protocols
noun 1. the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette. 2. an original draft, minute, or record from which a document, especially a treaty, is prepared. 3. a supplementary international agreement. 4. an agreement between states. 5. an annex to a treaty giving data relating to it. 6. Medicine/Medical. the plan for […]
- Protocol stack
protocol A layered set of protocols which work together to provide a set of network functions. Each intermediate protocol layer uses the layer below it to provide a service to the layer above. The OSI seven layer model is an attempt to provide a standard framework within which to describe protocol stacks. (1997-12-07)