(computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data

Usage examples of protocol.

The new Emperor would not allow her to put duty above protocol, even though with the food riots and threats of whole species seceding from the Allegiancy Empire, her work was more critical than ever.

The website contained basic information about anthrax as well as particular ways to deal with this recent attack, including the protocol for opening mail, easy-to-access references, frequently asked questions, and updated information about the current test results, how to obtain your test results, and where additional individuals could be tested.

It was easily apparent that the security protocols that prevented her nanoprobes from interacting with anything but her own cybernetic implants had been severely damaged, as were the safety interlocks that stopped them from assimilating everything they found into the Borg Collective.

Youman explained that the standard treatment protocol for tes-ticular cancer was called BEP, a cocktail of three different drugs, bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin, and they were so toxic that the nurses wore radioactive protection when handling them.

Lesbian and gay novels have their own protocols, their own coming out layers, their own tackling of homophobia and so forth.

In some ways, he was the most powerful Hortator here, because the special psychological uniformity of the Invariants, the so-called Protocols of Sanity, ensured that all the populations of the Cities in Space would follow his lead.

She found early protocol drafts and correspondence between herself and Gordon Rudnick at Manicon Laboratories.

I told him that I was on the standard treatment protocol for testicular cancer with lung metastasis, BEP.

Da5id Meier, supreme hacker overlord, founding father of the Metaverse protocol, creator and proprietor of the world-famous Black Sun, has just suffered a system crash.

But like anything else in the Metaverse, this rule is nothing but a protocol, a convention that different computers agree to follow.

And, anyway, he thought, is it protocol for panellists to ask each other questions?

And while, theoretically, Silver-Gray protocol forbade the use of emotion-control programs, Phaethon tended to use some small glandular and parasympathetic regulators.

As soon as he was recruited, he went into training, which was operationally directed by Colonel Pardee, a former army officer, who led the small paramilitary unit known as Protocols and Procedures Section or Unit P.

As Henry Pennell came back into the hall from the second lab, briefcase in hand, his hopes of finding the sugar-binding protocol were dashed.

She felt Nimitz quivering in his carrier, shared his almost dazed response to the sensations flooding through him like some polychromatic roll of thunder that went on and on and on, and it was all she could do to carry through the instinct-level protocol for boarding a ship.