HTTP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does HTTP mean? 

• HTTP (noun)
  The noun HTTP has 1 sense:

1. a protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers

  Familiarity information: HTTP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HTTP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

HTTP; hypertext transfer protocol

Hypernyms ("HTTP" is a kind of...):

communications protocol; protocol ((computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data)

 Context examples 

Access the National Cancer Institute Web site at http://www.cancer.gov.

(National Cancer Institute, NCI Dictionary)

A complete reference to a website (including http://) from which the document contents can be retrieved.

(Document Version Uniform Resource Locator, NCI Thesaurus)

More information about the NCI Cancer Centers Program can be found on the NCI's Web site at http://cancercenters.cancer.gov/.

(Comprehensive cancer center, NCI Dictionary)

Access the NCI Web site at http://www.cancer.gov.

(NCI, NCI Dictionary)

Most of this information, and more specific information about Physician Data Query, can be found on the NCI's Web site at http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq.

(Physician Data Query, NCI Dictionary)

Most of this information, and more specific information about PDQ, can be found on the NCI's Web site at http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq.

(PDQ, NCI Dictionary)

More specific information about PDQ can be found at http://cancer.gov/cancer_information/pdq/.

(PDQ Information System, NCI Dictionary)

For isomers see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fructose.

(Fructose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

A consensus protein secondary structure prediction server; http://barton.ebi.ac.uk/servers/jpred.html.

(JPred, NCI Thesaurus)

For isomers see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose.

(Glucose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)