The minutes, or official record, of a negotiation or transaction; especially a document drawn up officially which forms the legal basis for subsequent agreements based on it. • An official record of a diplomatic meeting or negotiation; later specifically, a draft document setting out agreements to be signed into force by a subsequent formal treaty. • An amendment to an official treaty. • The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page. • The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc. • The original notes of observations made during an experiment. • The precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment. • The official rules and guidelines for heads of state and other dignitaries, governing accepted behaviour in relations with other diplomatic representatives or over affairs of state. • An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group. • A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network. • The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order. • The introduction of a liturgical preface, immediately following the Sursum corda dialogue. • In some programming languages, a data type declaring a set of members that must be implemented by a class or other data type.