1. TCP - Adjective
2. TCP - Proper noun
(travel, aviation) Initialism of to complete party (followed by total number in group. Code used in OSI to advise an airline that other passengers are travelling with a person but are booked separately)
Initialism of thienyl cyclohexylpiperidine: tenocyclidine, a disassociative anesthetic drug with hallucinogenic properties. (Compare PCP.)
(computing, Internet) Initialism of Transmission Control Protocol.
A brand of mild antiseptic, originally formulated with trichlorophenylmethyliodosalicyl.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgTCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. Jon Postel
I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and - ta-da!- the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee
Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls. Wietse Venema
Also, the Eifel detection algorithm (RFC 3522) uses TCP timestamps to determine if retransmissions are occurring because packets are lost or simply out of order. Source: Internet
An example of a transport-layer protocol in the standard Internet stack is Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), usually built on top of the Internet Protocol (IP). Source: Internet
An HTTP client initiates a request by establishing a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection to a particular port on a server (typically port 80, occasionally port 8080; see List of TCP and UDP port numbers ). Source: Internet