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UDP

UDP is the initialism of uridine diphosphate.

UDP is the initialism of Ulster Democratic Party.

UDP is the initialism of Unit Deployment Program.

UDP is the initialism of User Datagram Protocol.

UDP is the initialism of United Democracy Project.

UDP is the initialism of Usenet Death Penalty.

Meaning of User Datagram Protocol

Proper noun

the User Datagram Protocol

  1. (Internet) A 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

Meaning of Usenet Death Penalty

Proper noun

the Usenet Death Penalty

  1. (Internet) A final penalty that may be issued against internet service providers or single users who produce too much spam or fail to adhere to Usenet standards, whereby all of their messages are deleted from Usenet servers and not allowed to propagate.
    Synonyms:
    UDP

Forms of UDP

pluralUDPs

Questions about UDP

What is UDP the initialism of?
UDP is the initialism of uridine diphosphate.

Words near UDP in the dictionary

  1. udoteaceous
  2. Udovich
  3. Udoviches
  4. udox
  5. udoxes
  6. UDP
  7. UDPGA
  8. UDPs
  9. UDRP
  10. UDRS
  11. UDS

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Adapted from Wiktionary: UDP (page history and authors); User Datagram Protocol (page history and authors); Usenet Death Penalty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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