Usually means: Set of rules for communication.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. protocol: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. protocol: Merriam-Webster
  3. protocol: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. protocol: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. protocol: Collins English Dictionary
  6. protocol: Vocabulary.com
  7. Protocol, protocol: Wordnik
  8. protocol: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. protocol: Wiktionary
  10. protocol: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. protocol: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. protocol: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. protocol: Dictionary.com
  14. protocol: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. protocol: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Protocol (Science), Protocol (album), Protocol (band), Protocol (communication), Protocol (computer science), Protocol (computing), Protocol (cryptography), Protocol (diplomacy), Protocol (disambiguation), Protocol (film), Protocol (natural sciences), Protocol (object-oriented programming), Protocol (politics), Protocol (science), Protocol (treaty), Protocol: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Protocol: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. protocol: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. protocol: Rhymezone
  20. protocol: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. protocol: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. protocol: FreeDictionary.org
  23. protocol: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. protocol: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. protocol (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  26. Protocol: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  5. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. protocol: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Protocol (treaty), protocol: Legal dictionary
  8. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  10. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. protocol: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. protocol: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. protocol: Netlingo
  4. protocol: CCI Computer
  5. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Protocol: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  7. Protocol: ILC Internet Terms
  8. Videoconfererencing Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  10. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  11. Webopedia (No longer online)
  12. protocol: Hacking Lexicon
  13. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  14. Technopedia (No longer online)
  15. Protocol (communication), Protocol (communications), Protocol (computing), Protocol (network), Protocol (networks), Protocol (treaty), protocol: Encyclopedia
  16. PROTOCOL: SELF PACED INTERNET GUIDE

Medicine (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. protocol: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Cancer Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. protocol: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  9. GI Disorders (No longer online)
  10. Protocol: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  11. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  12. protocol: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  13. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  14. protocol: Medical dictionary
  15. All About Hepatitis C (No longer online)
  16. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  17. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. protocol: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. protocol: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  4. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  5. Protocol: Data Acquisition
  6. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  7. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  8. Protocol: Web Hosting Glossary

(Note: See protocoled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (international law) An amendment to an official treaty.
noun:  The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page.
noun:  The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc.
noun:  (sciences) The original notes of observations made during an experiment.
noun:  (sciences) The precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment.
noun:  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.
noun:  (by extension) An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.
noun:  (computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.
noun:  (medicine) The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order.
noun:  (Roman Catholicism) The introduction of a liturgical preface, immediately following the Sursum corda dialogue.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To make a protocol of.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To make or write protocols, or first drafts; to issue protocols.

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