Usually means: Unit of data transmitted digitally.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. packet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. packet: Merriam-Webster
  3. packet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. packet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. packet: Collins English Dictionary
  6. packet: Vocabulary.com
  7. Packet, packet: Wordnik
  8. packet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. packet: Wiktionary
  10. packet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. packet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. packet: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Packet, packet: Dictionary.com
  14. packet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. packet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Packet (container), Packet (information technology), Packet (sea transport), Packet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Packet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. packet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. packet: Rhymezone
  20. packet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. packet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. packet: FreeDictionary.org
  23. packet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. packet: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. packet: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. packet: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. packet: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. packet: Netlingo
  4. Packet, Packet, packet: CCI Computer
  5. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Packet: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  7. Webopedia (No longer online)
  8. packet: Hacking Lexicon
  9. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Technopedia (No longer online)
  11. Packet (information technology), packet: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. packet: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. packet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. packet: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. packet: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. packet: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See packeting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
noun:  (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 (Wikipedia).
noun:  (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
noun:  (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
noun:  (networking) A protocol data unit of the Internet Protocol.
noun:  (networking) A message sent over a transport layer protocol.
noun:  (South Africa) A plastic bag.
noun:  (slang) Synonym of package (“male genitalia”).
noun:  (informal) A large amount of money.
verb:  (transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.
verb:  (transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
verb:  (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
verb:  (transitive, Internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.

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