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TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)

a standard format for transmitting data in packets from one computer to another. It is used on the Internet and various other networks. The two parts of TCP/IP are TCP, which deals with construction of data packets, and IP, which routes them from machine to machine.

See also wide-area network , Internet
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