packet
A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
Example
“Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!”
Other meanings
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).
A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
A kind of
- package
Kinds of packet
- deck
Related words
- antipacket
- interpacket
- intrapacket
- micropacket
- multipacket
- packetful
- packetize
- radgepacket
- subpacket
- catch a packet
- packet loss
- packet tracer
Word history
From Middle French "pacquet".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “packet” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.