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TCP

Definition: TCP

TCP

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"TCP" is a common misspelling or typo for: taco, tap, tic, tip, top.



Specialty Definitions: TCP

DomainDefinitions

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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Specialty Definition: TCP

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

TCP is an abbreviation of:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "TCP."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: TCP

 

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.

EntrySourceExpressionField

TCP

DanishSikker kommunikationskanalComputing, Law

TCP

EnglishTailless complex peptideN/A

TCP

FrenchProtocole de contrôle de transmissionComputing

TCP

GermanTricalciumphosphatN/A
TCPACOEnglishTCP Alternate Checksum Option, "TCP-ACO"Computer - (RFC 1146, TCP)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: TCP

Synonym: transmission control protocol (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: TCP

English words defined with "TCP": HTTP, hypertext transfer protocolTCP/IP, transmission control protocol/internet protocol. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TCP": Common Architecture for Next Generation Internet Protocol, Compressed SLIP, constant mappingFrame Relay Access DeviceIC Prolog IImaximum segment sizeNetwork News Transfer Protocolprotocol converterReal Time Streaming ProtocolsendmailTCPIP, TLAs, TP/IXUser Datagram Protocolwhois. (references)

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Commercial Usage: TCP

DomainTitle

Books

  • TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX(R) Domain Protocols (TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3) (reference)

  • Handbook of Computer Communication Standards: Tcp.Ip Protocal Suite (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: TCP

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)87.5%2176,261
Noun (singular)8.33%2245,945
Noun (common)4.17%1339,140
                    Total100.00%24N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: TCP

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "TCP": tcp-ip.

Ending with "TCP": Rtnet-tcp.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TCP

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: TCP

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.

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Anagrams: TCP

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TCP


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 43 50

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    -.-.    .--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01000011 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#67 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0043 0050

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

543750

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INDEX

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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