tcp

Noun
Synonyms: transmission control protocolTCP

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Noun (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”Synonyms: transmission control protocolTCP
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Transmission Control Protocol TCP

<networking, protocol> (TCP) The most common transport layer protocol used on Ethernet and the Internet. It was developed by DARPA.

TCP is the connection-oriented protocol built on top of Internet Protocol (IP) and is nearly always seen in the combination TCP/IP (TCP over IP). It adds reliable communication and flow-control and provides full-duplex, process-to-process connections.

TCP is defined in STD 7 and RFC 793.

User Datagram Protocol is the other, connectionless, protocol that runs on top of IP.

(2001-06-14)

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