PROTOCOL

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A 'Protocol' is a set of guidelines or rules for use in various circumstances. It may also refer to:

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Diplomacy

Records

Communications and computing

Tests and experiments

Medical treatment

Entertainment

Protocol

Diplomacy

★ Standards of behavior and ceremony to be observed by diplomats and heads of state in relating to each other.

Records

★ Meetings recorded as minutes have sometimes been called ''protocols''.

Communications and computing

★ Communications protocol, a set of rules governing communication between electronic devices

★ Protocol (computing), a set of rules governing communication within and between computing endpoints

★ Protocol (object-oriented programming), what unrelated objects use to communicate with each other in object-oriented computer programs, or how they do it

★ Cryptographic protocol, an abstract or concrete protocol that performs a security-related function and applies cryptographic methods.

Tests and experiments

★ Protocol (natural sciences), a predefined procedural method in the design and implementation of experiments.

★ In engineering, software engineering and manufacturing, a test protocol is a standardised test procedure for doing quality control.

★ Clinical trial protocol, the method used in a clinical trial of a drug or medical treatment

Medical treatment

★ Guideline (medical), a kind of protocol for medical treatment

Entertainment

★ Protocol (film), a 1984 Hollywood movie starring Goldie Hawn

★ Protocol (band), a British electropop band

Protocol

★ The Protocols, a fraudulent text, first serialized in a 1903 Russian newspaper, and subsequently republished, in various translations and forms, and known most popularly by the title, as the ''Protocols of the Elders of Zion''.