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packet
English
Alternative forms
- pacquet (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English pacquet; either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak and -et.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pak.?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?pæk.?t/
Noun
packet (plural packets)
- 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).
- (South Africa) A plastic bag.
- 2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?
- (colloquial) A manbulge.
- (informal) A large amount of money.
Derived terms
- fag packet
Translations
Verb
packet (third-person singular simple present packets, present participle packeting, simple past and past participle packeted)
- (transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.
- (transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
- 1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- Her husband was packeted to France.
- 1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
- (transitive, Internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
- 2007, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace
- Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender. These attacks—known as packeting—tend to be of limited duration […]
- 2007, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace
Translations
See also
- datagram
- packetlike
- packet radio
- packet switching, packet-switching
Further reading
- packet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- packet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Ptacek, peck at
German
Alternative forms
- packt
Pronunciation
Verb
packet
- imperative plural of packen
Portuguese
Noun
packet m (plural packets)
- (networking) packet (small fragment of data)
Swedish
Noun
packet
- definite singular of pack
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accumulation
English
Etymology
- First attested in the late 15th century.
- accumulate +? -ion, or borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationis. Doublet of accumulatio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.?kju?m.j?.?le?.??n/
- Hyphenation: ac?cu?mu?la?tion
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
accumulation (countable and uncountable, plural accumulations)
- The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
- The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
- A mass of something piled up or collected.
- (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
- (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
- (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
- (Britain, education, historical, uncountable) The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.
Synonyms
- (accounting): retained earnings
Antonyms
- decumulation
Related terms
- accumulate
- accumulator
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ky.my.la.sj??/
Noun
accumulation f (plural accumulations)
- accumulation (action of accumulating)
- accumulation (result of accumulating)
Related terms
- accumuler
Further reading
- “accumulation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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