packet

  1. Noun.  A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits.
  2. Noun.  (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.
  3. Noun.  (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
  4. Noun.  (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.
  6. Verb.  (transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
  7. Verb.  (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

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