Transmission control protocol

protocol for data transfer on networks and especially on the Internet, TCP

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. TCP provides reliable, in-order delivery of a stream of bytes, making it suitable for applications like file transfer and e-mail. It is so important in the Internet protocol suite that sometimes the entire suite is referred to as "the TCP/IP protocol suite."
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Noun
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"
(synonym) TCP
(hypernym) protocol, communications protocol
(part-holonym) transmission control protocol/internet protocol, TCP/IP

A network protocol that controls host-to-host transmissions over packet-switched communication networks.

<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)