packet

IPA: pˈækʌt

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.

(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

“I hit on the word packet,” he said, “in the sense of small package.”
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*.
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. —