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