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protocol

Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊtəˌkɒl/

The English word “protocol” has 15 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. An amendment to an official treaty.
  4. The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page.
  5. The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc.
  6. The original notes of observations made during an experiment.
  7. The precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment.
  8. 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.
  9. An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.
  10. A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.
  11. The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order.
  12. The introduction of a liturgical preface, immediately following the Sursum corda dialogue.
  13. In some programming languages, a data type declaring a set of members that must be implemented by a class or other data type.

verb

  1. To make a protocol of.
  2. To make or write protocols, or first drafts; to issue protocols.

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”).

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