Packet

Definition: Packet

Packet

Noun

1. A collection of things wrapped or boxed together.

2. (computer science) a message or message fragment.

3. A small package or bundle.

4. A boat for carrying mail.

Date "packet" was first used: 12th century. (references)

Domain	Definition
Computing	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). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Dream Interpretation	To dream of seeing a packet coming in, foretells that some pleasant recreation is in store for you. To see one going out, you will experience slight losses and disappointments. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Geography	There is a type of clay structure produced by discrete aggregates of clay known as -- or packet. Source: European Union. (references)
Post & Telecom	At the time of posting of the packet. Source: European Union. (references)
	Goods-bearing postal item weighing up to 2kg. Source: European Union. (references)
Slang in 1811	PACKET. A false report. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Space	A quantity of data used as the basis for multiplexing, for example in accordance with CCSDS. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
PA	English	Packet	Meteorology & Standards, International Organizations
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Packet

Synonyms: bundle (n), mail boat (n), mailboat (n), package (n), packet boat (n), parcel (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Assemblage	Group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine, fasces, bale; seron, seroon; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook.
Ship	Man of war; (combatant); transport, tender, storeship; merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	So, while it may look like a little thing to you, if I ask for a packet of Sweet-N-Low, that's what I want (Swimming With Sharks; writing credit: George Huang) Take the fourth ore sprockets packets from the packet brackets (Jetsons: The Movie; writing credit: Eric Luke)
Clever	On an American Airlines packet of nuts: "Instructions: Open packet, eat nuts. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	The Surprise Packet (1913) Two Pints of Lager (And a Packet of Crisps) (2001) Packet of Three (1991)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Dry Packet Bowl Soup (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Way's Packet Directory 1848-1994: Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America (reference) Criteria and Appication Packet (reference) Flower and Vegetable Seed Packet Stickers (reference) GPRS Packet Data Operations (reference) Voice Over Packet Networks (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Orillia Packet & Times (reference) Packet (reference) Pittsylvania Packet (reference) Tri State Packet (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Best Of Emerson & West Packet Trick Magic Vol. 1 (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Packet (reference) Packet of Love Letters (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Nortel Networks Fast Packet Cache 256Kb For Asn2 (Only) and Switch Node 100 (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Egg packet of Dipylidium caninum. Cestode, tapeworm, parasite. Credit: CDC.		Project Vortex. Class balloon instrument packet. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).
	Figure 52 (continued). Instructions to finders of the floats used by the Oceano graphic Society of the Gulf of Gascogne. These instructions were used by the packet boat CHILE in 1905. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Medicine - Military - Equipment : Dressing packet and pouch. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	[Medicine - Military - Equipment and supplies] : [First aid packet, circa 1900]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1863, page 196, depicting the bombardment of Fort McAllister by the U.S. Navy monitors Passaic, Patapsco and Nahant. The engraving is based on a sketch by "an eye-witness" on board USS Montauk, which is in the right center foreground. In the left foreground, firing on the fort, are the mortar schooners C.P. Williams, Norfolk Packet and Para. Among other U.S. Navy ships involved were gunboats Wissahickon, Seneca and Dawn and tug Dandelion. Credit: NAVY.
	The San Jacinto, having overhauled the British mail packet Trent, forces her to heave to. Confederate commissioners Mason and Slidell were taken off shortly afterward. Credit: Library of Congress.		Mississippi River views, 1898: Cincinnati packet, New South. Credit: Library of Congress.
	A Mississippi River packet. Credit: Library of Congress.		A River packet, Mobile, Ala. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He was about to resume his course when he perceived a little greyish packet on the ground at his feet
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	At the foot of the steps they halted and Stephen took a packet of cigarettes from his pocket and offered it to his companion
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		A copy of each overhead is included in a packet at the end of each module. (references)
		The back packet of this brochure contains cards with information on some of the many stroke clinical trials the NINDS supports or has completed. (references)
Business		Smaller companies with less resources prefer the solution of a router with built-in packet filtering. (references)
		GRPS (Global Packet Radio Service) is a technical standard that will be based on GSM but will have more capabilities. (references)
		Digitel is reportedly looking in to General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and EDGE solutions for migration to 3G services. (references)
Civil Liberties	Uzbekistan	The HRSU, citing similar concerns, nonetheless held a founding congress--for a second time--and was preparing a renewed application packet at year's end. (references)
Economic History	Uae	According to company officials, Etisalat is planning to launch the general packet radio services (GPRS) network, the first step towards making 3G mobile services available. (references)
	Turkey	Turk Telekom provides a wide range of telecommunication services such as basic telephony, GSM and NMT mobile telephone services, paging, VSAT, IBS, GMPCS, packet switched data, leased lines, video conference, cable TV, ISDN, Centrex, TTnet, Videotext, Directory and 118 Assistant Directory Services. (references)
Travel	Cote D'ivoire	CI-Telcom services include: mobile radio telephone, telex, telegraph and facsimile services, and an X.25 based packet switched network for large data communications applications and the MINITEL directory. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Packet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.32% of the time. "Packet" is used about 1,172 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.32%	1,164	6,608
Noun (proper)	0.68%	8	124,375
Total	100.00%	1,172	N/A

Expressions using "packet": a packet of cigarettes ♦ amateur packet radio ♦ at Attachment Packet Interface ♦ catch a packet ♦ cellular Digital Packet Data ♦ Chernobyl packet ♦ Christmas tree packet ♦ data packet ♦ fast Packet ♦ general Packet Radio Service ♦ hello packet ♦ instruction packet ♦ internetwork Packet eXchange ♦ kamikaze packet ♦ magic packet ♦ make a packet ♦ packet Assembler/Disassembler ♦ packet assembler/disassembler concentrator ♦ packet assembly/disassembly ♦ packet boat ♦ packet data protocol ♦ packet day ♦ packet driver ♦ packet goods ♦ packet in Plastic Grid Array ♦ Packet Internet Groper ♦ packet note ♦ packet over air ♦ packet post ♦ packet radio ♦ packet ship ♦ packet sniffer ♦ packet switch exchange ♦ packet Switch Node ♦ packet switched Bluetooth ♦ packet switched cellular/radio ♦ packet switched data network ♦ packet switched public data network ♦ packet switched service ♦ packet switching ♦ packet vessel ♦ packet writing ♦ pay packet ♦ sell smb. a packet ♦ sequenced Packet Exchange ♦ steam packet ♦ wage packet. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "packet": packet-boat, packet-note, packet-sized, packet-steamer, packet-switch, packet-switched, packet-switching.
	Ending with "packet": cereal-packet, pay-packet.
	Containing "packet": i-am-not-really-dead-but-just-popped-out-for-a-packet-of-fags, inter-packet gap.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "packet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		pakkie (parcel). (various references)

Albanian		plumb (ball, bullet, lead, pellet, plumbum, seal, shot, slug), pako (bundle, carton, pack, package, parcel, ream, roll), paketë (batch, carton, package), qeskë (bladder, casing, follicle, sac, sleeve), një dorë parash (lump sum), lundër e postës. (various references)

Arabic		‏مجموعة من الرسائل, ‏رزمة صغيرة. (various references)

Basque		pakete. (various references)

Bulgarian		сума пари (pot, pots of money), куп пари (pot, pots of money), вързоп (bundle, pack, package, truss), неприятност (annoyance, cross, headache, mischief, nuisance, plague, rub, scrape, shame, spot, trouble, vexation), беля (decorticate, exfoliate, mischief, nuisance, pare, peel, pill, rind, shell, shuck, skin, trouble), пратка (installment, instalment, parcel, shipment), пощенски кораб (mail boat, package boat, packet boat), пачка (batch, pack, sheaf, wad), пакетче (package), пакет (bundle, pack, package, parcel). (various references)

Catalan		paquet (parcel). (various references)

Chinese		小包 . (various references)

Czech		zásilka (consignment), sáèek (carrier bag, sachet), majlant, krabice (box, case, cist, pack), krabièka (caddy, case), balík (block, bumpkin, bundle, Hick, pack, package), balíček, balíèek (pack, package, parcel). (various references)

Danish		pakke (pack, package, parcel, wrap up). (various references)

Dutch		pakje (pack, parcel). (various references)

Esperanto		paketo (parcel). (various references)

Farsi		قوطی(سیگاروغیره), بسته کوچک , بسته بندی کردن (Pack, Package, Parcel, Wrap), بسته (Barred, Bundle, Package, Parcel, Shog, Shut, Stack, Wisp). (various references)

Finnish		paketti (package, parcel, small package). (various references)

French		paquet (pack, package, parcel). (various references)

German		Paket (bundle, dossier, pack, package, packets, parcel, pile, stack), Päckchen (pack, package, packets, parcel, parcels, sachet, small parcel), Datenpaket (datagram). (various references)

Greek		πακέτο (pack, package, parcel), δέσμη (beam, bunch, bundle, dossier, pack, sheaf, tuft, wisp). (various references)

Hebrew		חפיסה (wad). (various references)

Hungarian		csomag (baggage, bundle, deck, kit, luggage, pack, package, parcel, swathe). (various references)

Indonesian		paket. (various references)

Italian		pacchetto (column, pack, package, pact, parcel, parcels, small parcel), pacco (carton, pack, package, parcel). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		パクパク人形 (late-night phone call, Pacific, Pacific League, pagoda, pajamas, Pascal, pass, path, puppet with a moving mouth, pyjamas, state of being dried out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		パケット . (various references)

Korean		소포 (Parcel, Vesicle). (various references)

Malay		bungkusan (parcel). (various references)

Manx		paggaid, kianglaghan (parcel). (various references)

Norwegian		pakke (parcel). (various references)

Occitan		paquet. (various references)

Papiamen		paki (parcel). (various references)

Pig Latin		acketpay.(various references)

Polish		paczka (parcel). (various references)

Portuguese		pacote (bundle, pack, parcel). (various references)

Romanian		pachet (bale, batch, budget, bundle, pack, package, parcel, sheaf), pachebot (packet boat), navã poştalã micã, balota (bale, pack, pip), balot (bale, ballot, pack), împacheta (bale, do up, encase, pack, package, wrap, wrap up). (various references)

Russian		пакет (batch, convolute, pack, package, parcel, pkg). (various references)

Scottish		pasgan (parcel). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		paket (bale, bundle, package, parcel), nevolja (distress, misfortune, teen, trouble). (various references)

Spanish		paquete (Dandy, gift, joke, lump, outstanding person, pack, package, paper, parcel, task, trick, truss). (various references)

Sranan		paki (parcel). (various references)

Swedish		paket (pack, package, parcel, parcels), bunt (boundle, bundle, faggot, package, parcel, sheaf, wad), litet paket. (various references)

Tagalog		balútan (parcel). (various references)

Turkish		paketlemek (do up, enfold, infold, pack, pack up, package, wrap, wrap up), paket (cover, pack, package, parcel, takeaway, takeout), yaralanma (laceration), sorun (case, cause, difficulty, funeral, grievance, hangup, hurdle, ill, issue, knot, look out, problem, proposition, question, trouble), ceza alma, bohça (bundle, fardel, pack, package), bir yığın para, ambalajlamak (pack, package, wrap up), çıkın (bundle). (various references)

Turkmen		paket (r). (various references)

Ukrainian		фальшиве повідомлення, купа грошей, група (assemblage, batch, bracket, bunch, circle, class, cluster, gang, group, outfit, set), загортати в пакунок (parcel), пакет (bundle, pack). (various references)

Vietnamese		tàu chở thư (packet-boat). (various references)

Welsh		pecyn (package), paced, sypyn (bale, batch, package). (various references)

Zulu		iphasela (parcel), iphakethe (parcel), iliphasela (parcel), iliphakethe (parcel). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	facis, fasceis, fasciculo, fasciculos, fasciculum, fasciculumque, fasciculus, fascis. (various references)
Middle English	1100-1500	pak. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "packet": packeted, packeting, packets. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Packet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ackte, Axkxt, Backett, hacket, pacet, Pacetti, packa, packea, packen, packety, Packie, pajkic, pakka, pakki, Pankota, Paschke, Paskett, Pckeg, pcnet, peccata, Peccati, Pecke, pecket, Peskett, Picktel, Pictet, Pockett. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "packet" (pronounced pa"kut)
4	-a" k u t	jacket, racket, racquet.
3	-k u t	aftermarket, advocate, affricate, basket, Becket, biscuit, blanket, breadbasket, brisket, bucket, casket, certificate, circuit, cricket, hypermarket, delicate, docket, duplicate, etiquette, gasket, indelicate, intricate, junket, market, microcircuit, musket, Newmarket, patriarchate, picket, pickpocket, pocket, premarket, remarket, rocket, silicate, skyrocket, socket, sprocket, straitjacket, syndicate, thicket, ticket, tourniquet, trinket, triplicate, tunicate, upmarket, wastebasket, wicket.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-p-t"
	-1 letter: epact.
	-2 letters: cake, cape, cate, kept, pace, pack, pact, pate, peak, peat, peck, tace, tack, take, tape, teak, tepa.
	-3 letters: ace, act, ape, apt, ate, cap, cat, cep, eat, eta, kae, kat, kea, kep, pac, pat, pea, pec, pet, tae, tap, tea.
	-4 letters: ae, at, et, ka, pa, pe, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-k-p-t"
	+1 letter: packets, placket.
	+2 letters: packeted, plackets.
	+3 letters: backswept, packeting, retropack, skeptical.
	+4 letters: alpenstock, cheapskate, packthread, panickiest, picketboat, pocketable, retropacks, taperstick.
	+5 letters: alpenstocks, backstopped, blacktopped, cheapskates, marketplace, meatpacking, packthreads, peacockiest, picketboats, skeptically, spatterdock, steeplejack, tapersticks.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
packet sniffer	578	packet sniffing	27
island packet	208	winsock packet editor	27
princeton packet	184	clarenville packet	26
packet	180	packet loss	24
decoding packet	167	qos packet scheduler	23
packet radio	74	packet software writing	23
seed packet	73	packet internet groper	21
news packet	49	free packet sniffer	19
orillia packet times	47	packet 8	18
packet switching	42	acme packet	16
packet capture	38	packet seed template	16
packet times	37	packet pc	15
generator packet	36	island packet sail boat	15
packet sniffers	34	pattern packet	15
magic packet	33	columbus packet	15
island packet yacht	32	wedding seed packet favor	15
packet analyzer	29	editor packet	15
packet writing	28	packet serving single	14
hilton head island packet	28	packet cd	14
painting packet	27	packet filter	14
		packet storm	14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Wasting money" by Mike Strange Commentary: "Close up of cigarette packet with a couple of english coins in the foreground."	"Foil patterns" by Vi Xs Commentary: "This is a picture of an inside of a crisp packet."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Packet

Definition: Packet

Packet

Noun

Specialty Definition: Packet

Specialty Definition: Packet

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Packet

Synonyms: Packet

Synonyms within Context: Packet

Assemblage

Ship

Crosswords: Packet

Modern Usage: Packet

Screenplays

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Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Packet

References

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

Image Slideshow: Packet

Photos:Packet

Illustrations:Packet

Computer Images:Packet

Photo Album: Packet

Digital Photo Gallery: Packet

Use in Literature: Packet

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Non-Fiction Usage: Packet

Usage Frequency: Packet

Expressions: Packet

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Packet

Modern Translation: Packet

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