Definitions for protocol

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protocol pro·to·col

Spelling: [proh-tuh-kawl, -kol, -kohl]

IPA: /ˈproʊ təˌkɔl, -ˌkɒl, -ˌkoʊl/

Protocol is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in protocol (cloooprt).

Definitions for protocol

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)

1. to draft or issue a protocol.

Origin of protocol

1535-45; earlier protocoll Medieval Latin prōtocollum Late Greek prōtókollon orig., a leaf or tag attached to a rolled papyrus manuscript and containing notes as to contents. See Examples for protocol

The new information consisted of Internet protocol addresses that Comey said are “exclusively used” by North Korea.

There were not just one, not two but THREE breaches of protocol last night.

Then I prepared the protocol of the confession of Pouzikoff's wife.

Personal protective gear is only as effective as the protocol for using it.

There has been a question of such a protocol, but great difficulties have arisen.

Ford has generally held meetings in his suite, however, in what's called the "protocol lounge" just outside his private office.

Dropped that of the other's as soon as protocol would permit.

What should the protocol be for engaging people on the street who offer unsolicited “compliments?”

The protocol was converted into a treaty by the adhesion of Belgium on November 15.

If the protocol was to be of any use the time for acting upon it had arrived.