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Noun: TCP
  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";
    - transmission control protocol

Type of: communications protocol, protocol

Part of: TCP/IP, transmission control protocol/internet protocol

Encyclopedia: TCP