— protocolar /proh'teuh kol"euhr/ , protocolary, protocolic , adj.
/proh"teuh kawl', -kol', -kohl'/ , n.
1. the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
2. an original draft, minute, or record from which a document, esp. a treaty, is prepared.
3. a supplementary international agreement.
4. an agreement between states.
5. an annex to a treaty giving data relating to it.
6. Med. the plan for carrying out a scientific study or a patient's treatment regimen.
7. Computers. a set of rules governing the format of messages that are exchanged between computers.
8. Also called protocol statement, protocol sentence, protocol proposition . Philos. 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.
v.i.
9. to draft or issue a protocol.
[ 1535-45; earlier protocoll protocollum protókollon orig., a leaf or tag attached to a rolled papyrus manuscript and containing notes as to contents. See PROTO-, COLLOID ]