transmission control protocol

1. 1.

   a protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another

   “TCP uses a retransmission strategy to insure that data will not be lost in transmission”

   SynonymsTCP

   Broaderprotocol

   Part oftransmission control protocol/internet protocol

Questions about transmission control protocol

What does transmission control protocol mean?

transmission control protocol means "a protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another".

What is another word for transmission control protocol?

Close synonyms include TCP. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is transmission control protocol a common word?

transmission control protocol is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.