packet
pack´et Pronunciation: păk´ĕt
| n. | 1. | ||||||||||
| 1. | A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; | ||||||||||
| 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.
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| v. t. | 1. | To make up into a packet or bundle. | |||||||||
| 2. | To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. | ||||||||||
| v. i. | 1. | To ply with a packet or dispatch boat. | |||||||||
| Noun | 1. |  packet - a collection of things wrapped or boxed together |
| 2. | packet - (computer science) a message or message fragment | |
| 3. | packet - a small package or bundle | |
| 4. |  packet - a boat for carrying mail |
| 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. |