packet

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 See also 1.6 References 2 German 2.1 Verb 3 Swedish 3.1 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

Either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pack + -et.

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• (UK) IPA: /ˈpakɪt/

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Wikipedia

packet (plural packets)

1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits.
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.
3. (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks.

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to packet (third-person singular simple present packets, present participle packeting, simple past and past participle packeted)

1. (transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.
2. (transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
3. (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

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• datagram
• packet radio
• packet switching, packet-switching

[edit] References

• packet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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[edit] German

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packet

1. Imperative plural of packen. Short form: packt

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packet

1. see pack