protocol

In a sentence

Six example sentences with protocol, each labelled with its topic.

• Two devices cannot talk unless both follow the same protocol, agreeing on packet size, ordering and how errors are reported.

  Technology

• The studio switched the multiplayer protocol so that a dropped connection now resumes mid-match instead of ending the whole session.

  Gaming

• Her camera and laptop finally paired once she updated the transfer protocol, and a hundred raw files moved in seconds.

  Photography

• The MIDI protocol lets a keyboard tell a synthesizer which note was pressed, how hard, and when it was released.

  Music

• The startup designed its own messaging protocol so that a tiny sensor could report readings using almost no battery.

  Startups

• Card terminals talk to the bank over a protocol that encrypts every message, so a tampered packet is simply rejected.

  Finance

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