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• plural of protocol.

protocols

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1. Agreed-upon standards and practices in technology (particularly information technology) that allow systems manufactured by many different companies to be compatible with each other and work within common larger systems. Protocols are established by industry trade groups, governments, or some combination thereof.

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County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office, said accessing the device broke security protocols, and he wouldn’t open it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Tanden can reflexively rattle off the particularities of housing protocols I couldn’t begin to decode; she titters with satisfaction upon recounting the intricacies of a long-discarded Australian cap-and-trade proposal.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

"Both clubs have condemned the incident, and it's positive that Millwall and match officials followed the right protocols so that action can be taken to identify any individual responsible," the organisation said.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

"Important questions need to be answered about how the Crown Office, the Central Legal Office and other publicly funded bodies assess the reliability of patient medical records and the user protocols which support their use."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

And finally, today, we have reached a point in work flow that machines are talking to other machines over the Internet using standardized protocols, with no humans involved at all.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

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