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Definition packet

Etymology

From Middle English pacquet; either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak and -et.

Noun

packet (plural packets)

1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
2. (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 (Wikipedia).
3. (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
4. (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
5. (South Africa) A plastic bag.
6. (colloquial) A manbulge.
7. (informal) A large amount of money.

Verb

packet (third-person singular simple present packets, present participle packeting, simple past and past participle packeted)

1. (transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.
2. (transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
3. (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
4. (transitive, Internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.

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