protocols

1. Agreed-upon standards and practices in technology (particularly information technology) that allow systems manufactured by many different companies to be compatible with each other and work within common larger systems. Protocols are established by industry trade groups, governments, or some combination thereof.

Example Sentences

The sheriff’s and police departments shared license plate information and perhaps even more sensitive materials with out-of-state agencies, against state privacy protocols, Sacramento County’s grand jury says.

From Los Angeles Times

In an email exchange with Rob McCallum, he said he didn’t need a piece of paper to show Titan was safe, and that his own protocols and the “informed consent” of passengers were enough.

From BBC

Facilities organized for medical purposes are protected under the Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocols and other law and practice — rules developed in part as a response to the horrors of the Holocaust revealed at the Nuremberg trials — and can be either civilian or military, permanent or temporary, fixed or mobile.

From Salon

Candidates for clinical trials should not be identified based on positive blood tests from a clinical setting, but rather through carefully conducted research studies that have proper counseling and disclosure protocols.

From Los Angeles Times

For all of our differences, which are deep and long-lasting, he agreed with my argument in Liberal Racism’s first chapter, “Life After Diversity,” that diversity can’t be preached or programmed in bureaucratic, cookie-cutter protocols to benefit “people of color.”

From Salon

Related Words

• agreement
• code
• contract
• covenant
• custom
• obligation
• pact