- the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
- an original draft, minute, or record from which a document, especially a treaty, is prepared.
- a supplementary international agreement.
- an agreement between states.
- an annex to a treaty giving data relating to it.
- the plan for carrying out a scientific study or a patient's treatment regimen.
- a set of rules governing the format of messages that are exchanged between computers.
- 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.
- to draft or issue a protocol.
- the formal etiquette and code of behaviour, precedence, and procedure for state and diplomatic ceremonies
- a memorandum or record of an agreement, esp one reached in international negotiations, a meeting, etc
- (chiefly US)
- a record of data or observations on a particular experiment or proceeding
- an annexe appended to a treaty to deal with subsidiary matters or to render the treaty more lucid
- a formal international agreement or understanding on some matter
- an amendment to a treaty or convention
- a statement that is immediately verifiable by experience
- the set form in which data must be presented for handling by a particular computer configuration, esp in the transmission of information between different computer systems
