packet
IPA: pˈækʌt
noun
- A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
- (nautical) 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).
- (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
- (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
- (South Africa) A plastic bag.
- (slang) Synonym of package (“male genitalia”).
- (informal) A large amount of money.
verb
- (transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.
- (transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
- (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
- (transitive, Internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
Examples of "packet" in Sentences
- The packet consists of payload.
- The decapsulator will reassemble the packet.
- The booklet compactly stored in each packet.
- The term rotates the wave packet in the plane.
- The next octets are the packet length specifier.
- The packet hits the wall and the contents splatter.
- The event packet contains the identifier of that window.
- It is the equivalent of the health warning on a packet of cigarettes.
- “I hit on the word packet,” he said, “in the sense of small package.”
- This simplifies the calculation concurrently as the packet is transmitted.
- Others like Public Knowledge take the position that every packet is equal.
- Except now I can't remember if it's a 500g packet of butter or a 250g packet*.
- They consist of a small packet of sherbet, with a lollipop sealed into the bag.
- The underlying misunderstanding behind the “debate” about Net Neutrality and DPI boils down to “a packet is a packet is a packet”.
- In this packet is community information, police links so on so forth, but they also included the Colorado Springs CO, sex offender registry.
- But hey, if you want shitty-quality video, the stagnation of VOIP, and extremely-laggy surgery-at-a-distance just because “a packet is a packet is a packet”, then by all means get the government to ban stuff like DPI.
- STB has the press packet from the event posted -- it's pretty heady stuff, especially since the mayor has found a way to solve the problem that "In King County, African-Americans are 60 percetn (sic) more likely to be obese".
- I will certainly make them into a parcel, with some songs I have long meant to send you. and you will receive it by next Thursday night by Avey — But I write this quickly that you may have it tomorrow evening and know that the packet is coming. —