protocol

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.4 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

\Pro"to*col\

[edit] Etymology

French protocole, Late Latin protocollum, from Greek [Πρωτόκολλο (Πρώτο+κολλάω)] the first leaf glued to the rolls of papyrus and the notarial documents, on which the date was written; prw^tos the first (see proto- + glue.)

[edit] Noun

protocol (plural protocols)

1. A rule, guideline, or document which guides how an activity should be performed.
2. The original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument.
3. The minutes, or rough draft, of an instrument or transaction.
4. (diplomacy) A preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on.
5. (diplomacy) A convention not formally ratified.
6. (diplomacy) An agreement of diplomatists indicating the results reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation.
7. (computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit data, especially across a network. A message syntax or electrical specification and a description 2 or more communication nodes: finite state machines, the transition functions of which take messages or times as input and, when then so triggered, may themselves send messages.

[edit] Verb

to protocol (third-person singular simple present protocols, present participle protocoling, simple past and past participle protocoled)

1. (obsolete), (transitive): To make a protocol of.
2. (obsolete), (intransitive): To make or write protocols, or first drafts; to issue protocols.