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What does packet mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word packet? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
  2. (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).
  3. (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
  4. (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
  5. (South Africa) A plastic bag.
  6. (colloquial) A manbulge.
  7. (informal) A large amount of money.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.
  2. (transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
  3. (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
  4. (Internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
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