protocol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
computing
engineering
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French protocolle, protocole (“document, record”), from Late Latin protocollum (“the first sheet of a volume (on which contents and errata were written)”), from Byzantine Greek πρωτόκολλον (prōtókollon, “first sheet glued onto a manuscript”), from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue”).
Inflected forms:
form: protocols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: Another account says that, on the morning of the 31st of May, the king delivered to the prince-royal the crown, the sceptre, and the key of his treasure and gave him his blessing. The privy-counsillor Vockerodt drew up at his desire a protocol of the transaction.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: The terms of this protocol formed the basis for the Treaty of London signed by the British, French and Russian governments on 6 July 1827.
gloss: An amendment to an official treaty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The 1992 Protocol amended the definitions of other terms, including ‘ship’, ‘oil’ and ‘incident’: Art. 2.
gloss: The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They marked the beginning of each scroll with their protocol, a practice that continued in the papyrus trade in the Byzantine Empire [...] into the Islamic period, when there were bilingual protocols in Greek and Arabic.
gloss: The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The protocol of the bull contains elements that appear to be formulaic by the time of John XVIII 's pontificate.
gloss: The original notes of observations made during an experiment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The following is an abstract of the protocol of the experiment: Tumour extract.—A measured 16 c.c. of minced Rous Sarcoma tissue was ground with sand and extracted with 400 c.c. of 0.8-per-cent. saline.
gloss: The precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Even the Queen (for whom the curtsey is a more standard address) was recently treated to an enthusiastic Obama embrace. Her Majesty, who is not normally known for partaking in such public displays of affection, seemed unperturbed by Michelle Obama's disregard for royal protocol.
gloss: An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: For those uncertain in the protocol of handshaking a formula for the perfect handshake has been devised by scientists at the University of Manchester.
TfW has staff enforcing mask protocols at all the busy stations and most travellers oblige, albeit some with ill grace.
gloss: A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Moloch passed the message to the Behemoth / Whose master passed it on to Zebedee / It was sent by Internet, by obscure protocols / To its recipient, the delicious Miss Gee
An exception is Jabber, which is designed based on an open protocol called the extensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP).
Founders of those kinds of platforms argue that they are just building a “protocol” ultimately led by a community of users, with the computer code effectively running the show.
gloss: The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The introduction of a liturgical preface, immediately following the Sursum corda dialogue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This protocol of the Preface has been constant, with minor modification, from the Apostolic Tradition, of Hippolytus in 215 A.D., the earliest extant text of the Eucharistic Prayer, to the present 2002 Missale Romanum.
The proper Preface for Eucharistic Prayer II also appears as Common Preface VI. In it, the protocol and body of the Preface structure are meshed.
The celebrant then takes up this response in the first part of the preface itself (also known by the technical term ‘protocol’): […]
gloss: In some programming languages, a data type declaring a set of members that must be implemented by a class or other data type.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: prot-
proto-
Derived words: Address Resolution Protocol
application protocol data unit
bonding protocol
Budwig protocol
Chicago Protocol
cryptoprotocol
File Transfer Protocol
immunoprotocol
Internet Protocol
interprotocol
intraprotocol
Kyoto Protocol
layer 2 tunnelling protocol
layer two tunnelling protocol
metaprotocol
Milwaukee protocol
multiprotocol
Needham-Schroeder protocol
Newman-Goldfarb protocol
Otway-Rees protocol
preprotocol
protocolary
protocolic
protocoligorically
protocolist
protocolization
protocolize
protocol stack
pseudoprotocol
subprotocol
talk-aloud protocol
talk aloud protocol
think aloud protocol
think-aloud protocol
Traffic Light Protocol
Transmission Control Protocol
User Datagram Protocol
Wisconsin protocol
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: արձանագրություն
roman: arjanagrutʻyun
lang: Belarusian
word: пратако́л
roman: pratakól
lang: Bulgarian
word: протоко́л
roman: protokól
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 議定書 /议定书
roman: yìdìngshū
lang: Finnish
word: protokolla
lang: Finnish
word: pöytäkirja
lang: Finnish
word: muistiinpanot
lang: French
word: protocole
lang: Georgian
word: პროტოკოლი
roman: ṗroṭoḳoli
lang: Greek
word: πρωτόκολλο
roman: protókollo
lang: Japanese
word: 議定書
roman: giteisho
lang: Kazakh
word: хаттама
roman: xattama
lang: Korean
word: 의정서
roman: uijeongseo
lang: Polish
word: protokół
lang: Romanian
word: protocol
lang: Russian
word: протоко́л
roman: protokól
lang: Swedish
word: protokoll
lang: Thai
word: พิธีสาร
roman: pí-tii-sǎan
lang: Ukrainian
word: протоко́л
roman: protokól
lang: Welsh
word: protocol