Usually means: Data divided, routed independently, reassembled.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word packet switching:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. packet switching: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. packet switching: Merriam-Webster
  3. packet switching: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. packet switching: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. packet switching: Collins English Dictionary
  6. packet-switching: Wordnik
  7. packet switching: Wiktionary
  8. packet switching: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. packet-switching, packet switching: Dictionary.com
  10. Packet-switching, Packet switching: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Packet-switching, packet switching: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. packet switching: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. packet switching: Netlingo
  3. Packet Switching, packet switching: CCI Computer
  4. Packet Switching: ILC Internet Terms
  5. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  6. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Technopedia (No longer online)
  8. Packet-switching, packet switching: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. packet switching: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (packet switching)

noun:  (networking) A means of directing digitally encoded information in a communication network from its source to its destination, in which messages may be divided into smaller entities called packets, each of which travels independently through the network in paths based on moment-to-moment routing decisions made by the nodes through which they pass.

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