transmission control protocol, TCP

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"

• protocol, communications protocol — (computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data

• transmission control protocol/internet protocol, TCP/IP — a set of protocols (including TCP) developed for the internet in the 1970s to get data from one network device to another