TCP
n. uncountablen. Stands for Transmission Control Protocol. A set of rules that computers use to send information to each other over the internet reliably.
n. Abbreviation for Transmission Control Protocol. A core protocol of the Internet Protocol Suite that provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of octets between applications running on hosts communicating via an IP network.
TCP ensures that your emails arrive in the correct order.
Web browsers use TCP to connect to servers, ensuring that every piece of data in a webpage is received without errors.
While UDP is preferred for real-time streaming due to lower latency, TCP remains the standard for file transfers where data integrity and packet sequencing are paramount.
Often used as a modifier in the compound 'TCP/IP'.