Packet
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Etymology
French paquet, diminutive from Late Latin paccus, from the same source as pack.
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Noun
packet
- 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.
- (computing) a small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network.
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Translations
- small pack
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- vessel to convey mail
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- small fragment of data
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Transitive verb
to packet
- To make up into a packet or bundle.
- To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
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- make into a packet
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- send in a packet vessel
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Intransitive verb
to packet
- To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
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See also
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Swedish
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Noun
packet
- see pack