Definizione monolingua

packet

packet (third-person singular simple present packets, present participle packeting, simple past and past participle packeted)

1. (transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.
2. (transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
3. (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

Wikipedia packet (plural packets)

1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits.
2. (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.
3. (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii

     With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]

4. (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks.

Definizione dizionario packet

	pacchetto
	small pack
	An Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) network layer transmission unit that consists of binary information representing both data and a header containing an identification number, source and destination addresses, and error-control data.

pacco

impaccatura

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Altri significati:

(transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.

(transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.

(transitive) make into a packet

(botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.

small fragment of data

(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.

A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits.

(networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks.

(intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.