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TCP

Abbreviation for:
thalamocortical projection
therapeutic class profile
thrombocytopenia
total circulating protein
Total Commissioning Pilot 
Total Commissioning Project 
tricalcium phosphate
tropical calcific pancreatitis
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TCP

A popular over-the-counter nostrum containing phenol, halogenated phenols and sodium salicylate. TCP commands strong partisanship especially among the elderly and is widely believed to have remarkable properties, some of which must be attributed to its all-pervading aroma.
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The combination of Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP, forms the basic structure within which all other network protocols function.
The Internet provides the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and the IP (Internet Protocol) address that allows servers worldwide to identify each other based on a standard addressing system.
With the release of Service Pack 4 earlier this year, Microsoft did stop hackers from predicting transmission control protocol (TCP) numbers by counting the milliseconds between messages.
The new language, called Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), was developed by Robert Kahn - one of the designers of DARPAnet and now president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives - and Vinton Cerf, now a senior vice president of Internet architecture and engineering at MCI Communications, who had worked closely on the original DARPAnet protocol.
The eighteen contributions that make up the main body of the text are devoted to the data deluge, transmission control protocol for mobile and ad hoc networks, cotton leaf disease detection by feature extraction, and a wide variety of other related subjects.
Transmission control protocol (TCP) [7] is a dominant transport layer connection oriented and reliable end-to-end protocol.
A common technique is to use public Internet Relay Chat (IRC) servers, but hijacked servers can also issue instructions using Secure HTTP (HTTPS), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) strings.
(1) TCP: Transmission Control Protocol. An Internet protocol that guarantees data delivery through a retransmission mechanism.
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