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Definition of Packet

1. Noun. A collection of things wrapped or boxed together.

2. Noun. (computer science) a message or message fragment.

3. Noun. A small package or bundle.

4. Noun. A boat for carrying mail.

Definition of Packet

1. n. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.

2. v. t. To make up into a packet or bundle.

3. v. i. To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

Definition of Packet

1. Noun. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits. ¹

2. Noun. (nautical) 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. ¹

3. Noun. (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet. ¹

4. Noun. (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. ¹

7. Verb. (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Packet

1. to make into a small package [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Packet

packed packed cell volume packed cells packed decimal packed fudge packed heat packed human blood cells packed lunch packed lunches packed on

packed red blood cell packed to the gills packed to the rafters packer packers packet (current term) packet boat packet sniffer packet sniffers packet switching

packeted packeting packetization packetizations packetize packetized packetizer packetizers packetizes packetizing

Literary usage of Packet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"Edward Hartwell continued in the command of the packet till his death in 1795. ... The answer stated, that the packet was employed in the service of ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1820)
"The LONDON packet.—Merino, Claimant. A question of proprietary interest on ... The London packet, on her voyage to London, was captured by the private armed ..."

3. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1860)
"South-Eastern and Continental Steam packet Co 8 .. Hull Steam packet Co 11 .. Cork Steam Shipping Co 10 .. Limerick Steam Shipping Co. ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"C.] When hailed at sea, and asked where the packet boat belongs to, the answer is Holyhead; and the seamen navigating these boats reside at //<;- It/head. ..."

5. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1911)
"packet sloops plied between important points along the coast, and such of the inland cities as stood upon the banks of navigable river$ The trip from New ..."

6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1851)
"THE DE PORQUET packet. With every disposition to treat this item of evidence with the gravity and impartiality befitting quasi-judicial investigation, ..."

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