Dictionary Definition
packet
Noun
2 (computer science) a message or message
fragment
3 a small package or bundle
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Either from etyl frm pacquet, or formed independently from pack + -et.Pronunciation
- a UK /ˈpakɪt/
Noun
- A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits.
- 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. Packet boat, ship, vessel.
- A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks.
Translations
vessel to convey mail
- Finnish: paketti
Verb
- To make up into a packet or bundle.
- To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
- To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
Translations
(transitive) send in a packet vessel
(intransitive) to ply with a packet or dispatch
boat
See also
References
German
Verb
packet- Imperative plural of packen. Short form: packt
Swedish
Noun
packet- see pack
Extensive Definition
Packet may refer to:
- Packet (information technology), a formatted block of data carried by a packet mode computer network
- Packet radio, a form of amateur radio data communications using the AX25 protocol
- Packet (sea transport), a packet service is a regular scheduled service, carrying valuable freight and first class passengers
- C-82 Packet, a U.S. military transport aircraft
- Packet Newspapers - Newpapers with the title including the word "Packet", after a place-name.
- A small parcel e.g. Cigarette packet, Sugar packet
packet in Hebrew: Packet
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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