How to pronounce “protocol”

Meaning

• [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. [from 15th c.]
• (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. [from 17th c.]
• (international law) An amendment to an official treaty. [from 19th c.]
• The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page. [from 19th c.]
• The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc. [from 19th c.]
• (sciences) The original notes of observations made during an experiment. [from 19th c.]
• (sciences) The precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment. [from 19th c.]
• 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. [from 19th c.]
• (by extension) An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group. [from 20th c.]
• (computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network. [from 20th c.]
• (medicine) The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order. [from 20th c.]
• (Roman Catholicism) The introduction of a liturgical preface, immediately following the Sursum corda dialogue.
• (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.
• (obsolete, intransitive) To make or write protocols, or first drafts; to issue protocols.

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