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pack·et    Audio Help   [pak-it] Pronunciation Key
–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.
5.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 pack1 + -et -et]

1. See package.
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pack·et    Audio Help   (pāk'ĭt)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A small package or bundle.
  2. Informal A sizable sum of money.
  3. A boat, usually a coastal or river steamer, that plies a regular route and carries passengers, freight, and mail.
  4. 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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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
packet [ˈpӕkit] noun
a small often flat, usually paper or cardboard container, especially one in which food is sold or in which small objects are sent through the post
Example: a packet of biscuits
Arabic: حُزْمَه، عُلْبَه
Chinese (Simplified): 小包裹
Chinese (Traditional): 小包裹
Czech: balíček, krabice
Danish: pakke; æske
Dutch: pakje, doos
Estonian: (väike) pakk, karp
Finnish: paketti, rasia
French: paquet
German: das Päckchen
Greek: πακέτο
Hungarian: (kis) csomag
Icelandic: (smá)pakki
Indonesian: paket
Italian: pacchetto
Japanese: 小包み
Korean: 작은 (포장용) 상자
Latvian: paciņa; sainītis
Lithuanian: dėžutė, paketas, pakelis
Norwegian: pakning, liten pakke
Polish: paczka, pudełko
Portuguese (Brazil): pacote
Portuguese (Portugal): pacote
Romanian: pa­chet
Russian: пачка, пакет
Slovak: balíček, škatuľka
Slovenian: zavitek
Spanish: paquete, cajita; cajetilla (cigarrillos); sobre
Swedish: paket
Turkish: paket
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd.
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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)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Packet

Pack\, n. [Akin to D. pak, G. pack, Dan. pakke, Sw. packa, Icel. pakki, Gael. & Ir. pac, Arm. pak. Cf. Packet.]

1. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods. --Piers Plowman.

2. [Cf. Peck, n.] A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden. "A pack of sorrows." "A pack of blessings." --Shak.

Note: "In England, by a pack of meal is meant 280 lbs.; of wool, 240 lbs." --McElrath.

3. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; as: (a) A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack. (b) A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together. (c) A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves. (d) A shook of cask staves. (e) A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.

4. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely. --Kane.

5. An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.

6. [Prob. the same word; but cf. AS. p?can to deceive.] A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage. [Obs.] --Skelton.

Pack animal, an animal, as a horse, mule, etc., employed in carrying packs.

Pack cloth, a coarse cloth, often duck, used in covering packs or bales.

Pack horse. See Pack animal (above).

Pack ice. See def. 4, above.

Pack moth (Zo["o]l.), a small moth (Anacampsis sarcitella) which, in the larval state, is very destructive to wool and woolen fabrics.

Pack needle, a needle for sewing with pack thread. --Piers Plowman.

Pack saddle, a saddle made for supporting the load on a pack animal. --Shak.

Pack staff, a staff for supporting a pack; a peddler's staff.

Pack thread, strong thread or small twine used for tying packs or parcels.

Pack train (Mil.), a troop of pack animals.
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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.
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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