Definition of Packets

1. Noun. (plural of packet) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of packet) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Packets

1. packet [v] - See also: packet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Packets

packet boat
packet sniffer
packet sniffers
packet switching
packeted
packeting
packetization
packetizations
packetize
packetized
packetizer
packetizers
packetizes
packetizing
packetlike
packets (current term)
packfong
packfongs
packhorse
packhorse bridge
packhorse bridges
packhorses
packhouse
packhouses
packie
packies
packing
packing-case
packing box
packing case

Literary usage of Packets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Abroad generally they may be sent In Parcels, In Insured Boxes and Small packets (to those countries which accept them) or (where the ** Green Label ..."

2. The Progress of America, from the Discovery by Columbus to the Year 1846 by John Macgregor (1847)
"The range to which the New York steam-packets and other packets employed in the ... The Reputar packets and Steamboats in the Coasting Trade, lie at or near ..."

3. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1839)
"If « liken the European packets to an Atlantic rail road, ii.e cc seting- packets may be called branch roads, which olivet the necessary outward, ..."

4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1894)
"I should be happy to hear that Congress thought of establishing packets of their own between N. York and Havre. To send a packet from each port once in two ..."

5. The History of the British Post Office by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon (1912)
"CHAPTER VII SAILING packets AND FOREIGN CONNECTIONS THE Irish mail service was the first to boast a regular sailing packet.1 The postal expenditure for the ..."

6. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town by John Thomas Scharf (1874)
"Clark & Kellog established a new line of packets to run between Baltimore and New Orleans, y On Sunday night, December 6th, ten of the prisoners confined in ..."

7. Prevention of Disease and Care of the Sick: How to Keep Well and what to Do by William Gordon Stimpson, Milton Hugh Foster (1919)
"FIRST-AID packets. Small packages properly sealed and protected containing ... Various kinds of first-aid packets are on the market, but an excellent one is ..."

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