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packet \pack"et\ (p[a^]k"[e^]t), n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL.
paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See Pack.]
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1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a
packet of letters. --Shak.
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2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey
dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying
dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed
days of sailing; a mail boat.
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Packet boat, Packet ship, or Packet vessel. See
Packet, n., 2.

Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or
the sailing day.

Packet note or Packet post. See under Paper.
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Packet \Pack"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Packeted; p. pr. & vb.
n. Packeting.]

1. To make up into a packet or bundle.
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2. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
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Her husband
Was packeted to France. --Ford.
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Packet \Pack"et\, v. i.
To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
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packet
n 1: a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn:
package, bundle, packet, parcel]

2: (computer science) a message or message fragment

3: a small package or bundle

4: a boat for carrying mail [syn: mailboat, mail boat,
packet, packet boat]
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packet

The unit of data sent across a network. "Packet" is a
generic term used to describe a unit of data at any layer of
the OSI protocol stack, but it is most correctly used to
describe application layer data units ("{application
protocol data unit}", APDU).

See also datagram, frame.

(1994-11-30)

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packet [pækit]
Datenpaket; Paket

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packet [pækit]
paquet

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kiscsomag
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packet
pacco

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packet [pækit]
pakje

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packet [pækit]
pacote

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paquete

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packet

Datenpaket n [comp.]
packet

Paket n
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paketieren
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48 Moby Thesaurus words for "packet":
argosy, bale, bark, batch, bindle, boat, bolt, bomb, boodle,
bottom, bouquet, bucket, budget, bundle, craft, deck, fagot,
fardel, fasces, fascine, fortune, great deal, hooker, hulk, hull,
keel, leviathan, loads, lots, mint, nosegay, pack, package, parcel,
piles, posy, pretty penny, quiver, roll, rouleau, sheaf, ship,
tidy sum, truss, tub, vessel, wad, watercraft



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