Definition of Packet

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Packet

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

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.

To make up into a packet or bundle.

To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.

To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

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Packet Quotations

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
John Updike

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
Billy Connolly

The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
Katherine Whitehorn

Packet Translations

packet in Afrikaans is pakkie
packet in Danish is pakke
packet in Dutch is pakje
packet in French is paquet
packet in German is Datenpaket, Paket, paketieren
packet in Hungarian is kiscsomag, csomag
packet in Italian is impaccatura, pacchetto
packet in Latin is facis
packet in Norwegian is pakke
packet in Portuguese is pacote
packet in Spanish is paquete
packet in Swedish is bunt, litet paket, paket

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