 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
packet
noun
1: a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: {package},
{bundle}, {parcel}]
2: (computer science) a message or message fragment
3: a small package or bundle
4: a boat for carrying mail [syn: {mailboat}, {mail boat}, {packet
boat}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
packet \pack"et\ (p[a^]k"[e^]t), noun [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}, {Packet ship}, or {Packet vessel}. See
{Packet}, noun, 2.
{Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or
the sailing day.
{Packet note} or {Packet post}. See under {Paper}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Packet \Pack"et\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Packet \Pack"et\, verb (used without an object)
To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "packet":
argosy, bale, bark, batch, bindle, boat, bolt, bomb, boodle,
bottom, bouquet, bucket, budget, bundle, craft, deck, fagot,
fardel, fasces, fascine, fortune, great deal, hooker, hulk, hull,
keel, leviathan, loads, lots, mint, nosegay, pack, package, parcel,
piles, posy, pretty penny, quiver, roll, rouleau, sheaf, ship,
tidy sum, truss, tub, vessel, wad, watercraft
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
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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