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A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel

(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).

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

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

(networking) A protocol data unit of the Internet Protocol.

(networking) A message sent over a transport layer protocol.

(South Africa) A plastic bag.

(slang) (male genitalia).

(informal) A large amount of money.

To make up into a packet or bundle.

To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.

To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

(internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.