User Datagram Protocol

proper noun

A communications protocol that has no error recovery features, and is mostly used to stream material over the Internet.

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Meanings

proper nounthe User Datagram Protocol
  1. InternetA communications protocol that has no error recovery features, and is mostly used to stream material over the Internet.

    This User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is defined to make available a datagram mode of packet-switched computer communication in the environment of an interconnected set of computer networks.

    1980 August 28, Jon Postel, “User Datagram Protocol”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 768

    Synonyms: UDP

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA communications protocol that has no error recovery features, and is mostly used to stream material over the Internet.

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UDP
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