packet : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: packet	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for packet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
packet n a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: package, bundle, packet, parcel] (computer science) a message or message fragment a small package or bundle a boat for carrying mail Synonym(s): mailboat, mail boat, packet, packet boat
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Packet \Pack"et\, v. t. [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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Packet \Pack"et\, v. i. To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Packet \Pack"et\, n. [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}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2. {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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)