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boat, bundle, container, envelope, folder, package, parcel, pouch, bag, carton, file, wrapper

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pack⋅et

[pak-it]

–noun

1.	a small group or package of anything: a packet of letters.

2.	Also called packet boat, packet ship. a small vessel that carries mail, passengers, and goods regularly on a fixed route, esp. on rivers or along coasts.

3.	Cards. a part of a pack of cards after being cut.

4.	Informal. a large amount of money.

British Slang.

a.	a painful blow or beating.

b.	misfortune or failure.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to bind up in a package or parcel.

Origin:
1520–30; < MF pacquet, equiv. to pacqu(er) to pack ¹ + -et -et

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Language Translation for : Packet

Spanish:

paquete, cajita; cajetilla (cigarrillos); sobre,

German:

das Päckchen,

Japanese:

小包み

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pack·et (pāk'ĭt) Pronunciation Key
n.

A small package or bundle.
Informal A sizable sum of money.
A boat, usually a coastal or river steamer, that plies a regular route and carries passengers, freight, and mail.
A short block of data transmitted in a packet switching network.

[Middle English pekette, probably diminutive of pak, pack; see pack¹.]

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packet

1530, from M.E. pak "bundle" (see pack (n.)) + dim. suffix -et; perhaps modified on Anglo-Fr. pacquet (M.Fr. pacquet), which is ult. a dim. of M.Du. pak. A packet boat (1641) was originally one that carried mails.

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packet
noun
1.	a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: package]
2.	(computer science) a message or message fragment
3.	a small package or bundle
4.	a boat for carrying mail [syn: mailboat]

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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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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.

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.

Packet

Pack"et\, v. i. To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.