Meaning of Packet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
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, vessel (Wikipedia).
3. A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
4. A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
5. A protocol data unit of the Internet Protocol.
6. A message sent over a transport layer protocol.
7. A plastic bag.
   South-Africa
8. Synonym of package (“male genitalia”).
   slang
9. A large amount of money.
   informal

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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[…].”

“The Minecraft server accepts connections from TCP clients and communicates with them using packets. A packet is a sequence of bytes sent over the TCP connection.”

“2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?”

“A sleeping, silver-haired man, probably about fifty, couldn’t close his legs because of the size of his packet.”

“It'll cost a packet to fix this.”

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