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Definition: TCP |
TCPNoun1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | TCP Transmission Control Protocol. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Geological | TCPs are points that have been registered and/or rectified on an image or a planimetric surface with respect to some horizontal coordinate system and/or vertical datum. (Tie Control Point). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TCP | Danish | Sikker kommunikationskanal | Computing, Law |
TCP | English | Tailless complex peptide | N/A |
TCP | French | Protocole de contrôle de transmission | Computing |
TCP | German | Tricalciumphosphat | N/A |
| TCPACO | English | TCP Alternate Checksum Option, "TCP-ACO" | Computer - (RFC 1146, TCP) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: TCPSynonym: transmission control protocol (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: TCP |
| English words defined with "TCP": HTTP, hypertext transfer protocol ♦ TCP/IP, transmission control protocol/internet protocol. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TCP": Common Architecture for Next Generation Internet Protocol, Compressed SLIP, constant mapping ♦ Frame Relay Access Device ♦ IC Prolog II ♦ maximum segment size ♦ Network News Transfer Protocol ♦ protocol converter ♦ Real Time Streaming Protocol ♦ sendmail ♦ TCPIP, TLAs, TP/IX ♦ User Datagram Protocol ♦ whois. (references) |
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| "TCP" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "TCP" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 87.5% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "TCP": tcp-ip. | |
Ending with "TCP": Rtnet-tcp. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tcp ip | 1,639 |
tcp | 747 |
fast tcp | 217 |
compaq ip openvms services tcp | 152 |
tcp port | 145 |
dr tcp | 78 |
tcp ip port | 67 |
tcp optimizer | 50 |
tcp ip stack | 50 |
tcp ip protocol | 42 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TCP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 傳輸控制"定 (transmission control protocol). (various references) | |
Korean | 송 어 "로 콜. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | tcpay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-p-t" | |
+1 letter: pact. | |
+2 letters: caput, chapt, clapt, clept, clipt, coapt, compt, coopt, crept, crypt, cutup, epact, optic, pacts, patch, picot, pitch, topic, typic. | |
+3 letters: accept, aspect, atopic, atypic, capita, caplet, capote, captan, captor, carpet, cartop, catnap, catnip, catsup, claspt, coapts, coempt, compts, coopts, coplot, copout, copter, cotype, cowpat, crypto, crypts, cutups, depict, ectype, epacts, except, expect, haptic, hepcat, impact, incept, octopi, optics, packet, pataca, patchy, pecten, pectic, pectin, peptic, phatic, photic, picket, picots, pitchy, placet, pocket, poetic, preact, precut, ptotic, putsch, recept, script, sculpt, septic, teacup, tipcat, toecap, topics, tropic, upcast, uptick, yclept. | |
+4 letters: accepts, aphetic, aphotic, aplitic, apomict, apricot, aprotic, aseptic, aspects, bioptic, cajaput, cajeput, cajuput, caltrap, caltrop, cantrap, cantrip, capelet, capital, capitol, caplets, capotes, capstan, captain, captans, caption, captive, captors, capture, carpets, carport, catalpa, catchup, catnaps, catnips, catspaw, catsups, cesspit, chapati, chaplet, chapter, chutzpa, coalpit, coapted, cockpit, coempts, compact, compart, compete, complot, comport, compost, compote, compted, compute, concept, cooktop, coopted, copilot, coplots, copouts, copters, copycat, copyist, corrupt, cotypes, couplet, cowpats, crampit, crumpet, cryptal, cryptic, cryptos, culprit, cuprite, cuspate, decrypt, depicts, diptyca, diptych, discept, ecotype, ectopia, ectopic, ectypal, ectypes, encrypt, entopic, excepts, excerpt, expects, flatcap, glyptic, hepatic, hepcats, impacts, incepts, incipit, inspect, jackpot, ketchup, matchup, metopic, nepotic, nitpick, nutpick, occiput, octopod, octopus, octuple, octuply, opacity, ophitic, optical, outcrop, outpace, packets, paction, pandect, paretic, parotic, patacas, patched, patcher, patches, patency, paucity, peacoat, peccant, pectase, pectate, pectens, pectins, pectize, pelitic, peptics, percent, percept, perfect, petcock, photics, picante, pickets, picoted, picotee, picquet, picrate, picrite, picture, piratic, pitched, pitcher, pitches, placate, placets, placket, plastic, playact, plectra, plicate, pockets, poditic, poetics, polecat, politic, polycot, porrect, portico, postdoc, potamic, potence, potency, potiche, potlach, potluck, practic, preacts, precast, precent, precept, precuts, predict, prefect, prelect, pricket, proctor, product, project, prosect, protect, pschent, psoatic, pyretic, pyritic, receipt, recepts, repatch, respect, scepter, sceptic, sceptre, scripts, sculpts, septics, skeptic, spastic, spathic, specter, spectra, spectre, spicate, splotch, stackup, stickup, styptic, suspect, tapioca, teacups, tipcart, tipcats, toecaps, topcoat, topical, topkick, touchup, triceps, tripack, trophic, tropics, tryptic, typical, upcasts, upcoast, upticks. | |
+5 letters: accepted, acceptee, accepter, acceptor, adscript, antipyic, apatetic, aplastic, apomicts, apostacy, apothece, apractic, apricots, apyretic, atrophic, atypical, autopsic, backstop, becarpet, biotypic, blacktop, cachepot, cajaputs, cajeputs, cajuputs, calotype, calthrop, caltraps, caltrops, calypter, calyptra, campiest, campsite, cantraip, cantraps, cantrips, capacity, capelets, capitals, capitate, capitols, capitula, caponata, capstans, capstone, captains, captions, captious, captives, captured, capturer, captures, carpeted, carports, catalpas, catapult, catchups, catnaper, catspaws, cenotaph, centuple, cerotype, cesspits, chapatis, chapatti, chapiter, chaplets, chappati, chapters, cheapest, chutzpah, chutzpas, claptrap, clodpate, clypeate, coalpits, coapting, cockpits, coempted, colpitis, compacts, comparts, competed, competes, compleat, complect, complete, complots, comports, composts, compotes, compting, computed, computer, computes, concepts, conepate, conepatl, contempt, cooktops, coopting, cooption, coparent, copastor, copatron, copemate, copilots, copulate, copycats, copyedit, copyists, corrupts, coscript, couplets, crackpot, crampits, crepiest, crispate, crispest, crowstep, crumpets, culprits, cupidity, cuppiest, cuprites, cupulate, cuspated, cutpurse, deathcup, decrepit, decrypts, depicted, depicter, depictor, despatch, despotic, dioptric, dipstick, diptycas, diptychs, discepts, dispatch, dumpcart, ecliptic, ecotypes, ecotypic, ectopias, elliptic, empathic, emphatic, encrypts, entropic, epicotyl, epidotic, epitaxic, epitomic, escapist, eucalypt, eupeptic, euphotic, excepted, excerpts, expected, explicit, flatcaps, footpace, glyptics, haptenic, haptical, helicopt, hepatica, hepatics, heptarch, herpetic, hoplitic, hotchpot, hypnotic, hypothec, impacted, impacter, impactor, implicit, incepted, inceptor, incipits, inspects, isotopic, isotypic, jackpots, ketchups, klephtic, kyphotic, leprotic, leptonic, lickspit, lipocyte, lipstick, lockstep, lopstick, matchups, mephitic, mercapto, mispatch, nightcap, nitpicks, nitpicky, nutpicks, occipita, occiputs, occupant, octopods, octupled, octuples, octuplet, octuplex, oophytic, opencast, operatic, optician, opticist, otoscope, otoscopy, outcaper, outcrops, outpaced, outpaces, outpitch, outprice, outpunch, outscoop, pacifist, packeted, pactions, pancetta, pandects, panoptic, papistic, paretics, parritch, particle, pasticci, pastiche, patchers, patchier, patchily, patching, pathetic, patience, peacoats, peckiest, pectases, pectates, pectines, pectized, pectizes, pectoral, peculate, pedantic, penchant, penstock, pentacle, pentarch, pentomic, peptidic, peptonic, percents, percepts, perfecta, perfecto, perfects, periotic, perlitic, petcocks, petechia, petrolic, phenetic, phimotic, phonetic, photonic, photopic, phratric, phreatic, phthalic, phthisic, phyletic, phytonic, picketed, picketer, pickiest, picotees, picoting, picquets, picrated, picrates, picrites, picritic, pictured, pictures, piecrust, pigstick, piscator, pistache, pitchers, pitchier, pitchily, pitching, pitchman, pitchmen, pitchout, pittance, placated, placater, placates, placenta, plackets, planchet, plastics, platinic, platonic, playacts, plectron, plectrum, plicated, plutonic, pocketed, pocketer, pockiest, poetical, polecats, politick, politico, politics, polycots, pontific, poplitic, portance, porticos, postcard, postcava, postcode, postcoup, postdocs, postface, postiche, postrace, postsync, potassic, potences, potiches, potlache, potlatch, potlucks, poultice, practice, practise, praefect, praelect, preacted, precasts, precents, precepts, precinct, precited, predicts, preelect, preenact, preerect, prefects, prelatic, prelects, prentice, pretence, priciest, prickets, proctors, products, projects, prosects, prospect, protatic, protects, protocol, protonic, protract, pruritic, pschents, psilotic, pumicite, punctate, punctual, puncture, punditic, puristic, pushcart, pussycat, putsches, pycnotic, pyelitic, pyknotic, pythonic, rapacity, reaccept, recarpet, receipts, receptor, rescript, resculpt, respects, scepters, sceptics, sceptral, sceptred, sceptres, scotopia, scotopic, scrimpit, scripted, scripter, sculpted, sculptor, scyphate, septical, sheepcot, sinciput, skeptics, spaciest, spastics, speciate, spectate, specters, spectral, spectres, spectrum, spicated, spiccato, spiciest, splotchy, sprocket, sprucest, stackups, stickpin, stickups, stockpot, stopcock, strophic, styptics, suboptic, subtopic, suspects, synaptic, synoptic, tapiocas, tenpence, terpenic, tieclasp, tipcarts, tipstock, toepiece, topcoats, topcross, topkicks, topnotch, touchups, traprock, tripacks, tripodic, triptyca, triptych, tropical, tuckshop, tuppence, twopence, tympanic, typecase, typecast, typeface, typhonic, unpoetic, uppercut, whitecap. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 43 50 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- -.-. .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01000011 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T C P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0043 0050 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)543750 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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