Packet

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Packet may refer to:

  • A small container or pouch
    • Packet (container), a small single use container
    • Cigarette packet
    • Sugar packet
  • Network packet, a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-mode computer network
  • Packet radio, a form of amateur radio data communications using the AX25 protocol
  • Packet trade, regularly scheduled cargo, passenger, and mail trade conducted by ship
  • Packet boat, type of boat used for scheduled mail or passenger service
  • C-82 Packet, a U.S. military transport aircraft
  • Packet Newspapers, British newspaper group

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Packet
  • All pages with titles containing Packet
  • Package (disambiguation)
  • Pack (disambiguation)
  • Kit (disambiguation)
  • MacGuffin - A plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or another motivator popularized in the 1930s by Alfred Hitchcock: "Taken from a story about two men on a train. One man says, 'What's that package up there in the baggage rack?' And the other answers, 'Oh, that's a MacGuffin'. The first one asks, 'What's a MacGuffin?'"
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