packet

Meanings

Noun

  • A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
  • 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).
  • A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
  • A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
  • A plastic bag.
  • A manbulge.
  • A large amount of money.

Verb

  • To make up into a packet or bundle.
  • To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
  • To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
  • To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.

Origin

  • From Middle English pacquet; either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak and -et.

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