meaning of proteus

1. A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles.
2. A genus of aquatic eel-shaped amphibians found in caves in Austria. They have permanent external gills as well as lungs. The eyes are small and the legs are weak.
3. A changeable protozoan; an amoeba.
4. PROTEUS An extensible language, the core of PARSEC. ["The Design of a Minimal Expandable Computer Language", J. R. Bell, PhD Thesis, CS, Stanford University Dec 1968]. protocal Its spelled "protocol". protocol A set of formal rules describing how to transmit data, especially across a network. Low level protocols define the electrical and physical standards to be observed, bit- and byte-ordering and the transmission and error detection and correction of the bit stream. High level protocols deal with the data formatting, including the syntax of messages, the terminal to computer dialogue, character sets, sequencing of messages etc. Many protocols are defined by RFCs or by OSI. See also handshaking. [Jargon File]
5. type genus of the Proteidae

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