Packet

/ˈpæk.ɪt/ · noun

Meaning

A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel.

Definitions by Sense

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. (networking) A protocol data unit of the Internet Protocol.
6. (networking) A message sent over a transport layer protocol.
7. (South Africa) A plastic bag.
8. (slang) Synonym of package (“male genitalia”).

Example Sentences

Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!

a packet of letters

a packet of biscuits

(archaic) a travel bag containing clothing, nightwear and other accessories.

With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.

The wooden jetty on the East Pier had become worm-eaten and was demolished, but the Admiralty lent an old hulk to serve as a rough-and-ready packet facility.

Fishguard Harbour, constructed some 60 years ago by the G.W.R., became the packet port for G.W.R. services to Waterford and Rosslare - the latter port itself was a new venture partly under G.W.R. auspices - and to Cork.

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…].

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• packets
• pacquet
• packeting
• packeted

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