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