What (who) is packet - definition
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Packets; Packet (disambiguation)
packet
¦ noun
1. a paper or cardboard container.
2. (a packet) informal, chiefly Brit. a large sum of money.
3. dated a boat travelling at regular intervals between two ports, originally for the conveyance of mail.
4. Computing a block of data transmitted across a network.
¦ verb (packets, packeting, packeted) [often as adjective packeted] wrap up in a packet.
Origin
C16: dimin. of pack1, perh. from Anglo-Norman Fr.; cf. Anglo-Latin paccettum.
packet
n. a pay packet (BE; AE has pay envelope)
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)
Wikipedia
Packet
Packet may refer to:
- A small container or pouch
- Packet (container), a small single use container
- Cigarette packet
- Sugar packet
- Network packet, a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-mode computer network
- Packet radio, a form of amateur radio data communications using the AX25 protocol
- Packet trade, regularly scheduled cargo, passenger, and mail trade conducted by ship
- Packet boat, type of boat used for scheduled mail or passenger service
- C-82 Packet, a U.S. military transport aircraft
- Packet Newspapers, British newspaper group
Pronunciation examples for packet
1. packet.
Arunachalam Muruganantham _ A Simple Yet Impactful Life _ Talks at Google
2. intervention packet.
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3. Please take a packet.
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4. from the packet.
Communications Security _ Phil Zimmermann _ Talks at Google
5. I got this packet.
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Examples of use of packet
1. Pay Packet On your card you will also find our new Pay Packet game.
2. "I‘d start off with a packet of crisps for breakfast, and then I‘d have a second packet.
3. TOBACCO Rise of 'p a packet Excise duty on packet of cigarettes to go up by 'p from tomorrow.
4. The cost of cigarettes will rise by 11p per packet.
5. Nobody would go near a packet of cigarettes after that.