packets
noun
- 1
A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
“Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!”
- 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. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia).
- 3
A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
- 4
A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
- 5
A plastic bag.
“2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?”
- 6
A manbulge.
- 7
A large amount of money.
“It'll cost a packet to fix this.”
verb
- 1
To make up into a packet or bundle.
- 2
To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
- 3
To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
- 4
To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
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