5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr LL paccus, from the
same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.]
1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as a
packet of letters. --Shak.
2. 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}, or {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2.
{Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or
the sailing day
{Packet note} or {post}. See under {Paper}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Packet \Pack"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Packeted}; p. pr & vb
n. {Packeting}.]
1. To make up into a packet or bundle.
2. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
Her husband Was packeted to France. --Ford.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Packet \Pack"et\, v. i.
To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
packet
n 1: a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: {package},
{bundle}, {parcel}]
2: a small package or bundle
3: a boat for carrying mail [syn: {mailboat}, {mail boat}, {packet
boat}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
packet
The unit of data sent across a {network}. Packet" is a
generic term used to describe a unit of data at any layer of
the {OSI} {protocol stack}, but it is most correctly used to
describe {application layer} data units ("{application
protocol data unit}", APDU).
See also {datagram}, {frame}.
(1994-11-30)
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