| 1. | the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette. |
| 2. | an original draft, minute, or record from which a document, esp. 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. |
| 9. | to draft or issue a protocol. |
protocol pro·to·col (prō'tə-kôl', -kōl')
n.
The plan for a course of medical treatment or for a scientific experiment.
protocol (prō'tə-kôl', -kōl') Pronunciation Key
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