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      protocol
      noun
      (computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.
      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.
      (medicine) The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order.
      (sciences) The precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment.
      (by extension) An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.
      (sciences) The original notes of observations made during an experiment.
      (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.
      (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.
      (Roman Catholicism) The introduction of a liturgical preface, immediately following the Sursum corda dialogue.
      (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.
      (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.
      verb
      (obsolete, transitive) To make a protocol of.
      (obsolete, intransitive) To make or write protocols, or first drafts; to issue protocols.
      Roots
      protosproto- · Greek · firstkolla-col · Greek · glue
      Synonyms for protocol
      treatynetiquettenconventionsnpactnpactionnconcordatncovenantnformalitiesn
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