meaning of packet
1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
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.
3. To make up into a packet or bundle.
4. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
5. To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
6. 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.
7. a boat for carrying mail
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