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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
packet From the web:
- what packet loss
- what packet loss is acceptable
- what packet loss means
- what packets can wireshark capture
- what packet types are included in dhcp
- what packet tracer
- what packet switching
- what packet of crisps am i
backscatter
English
Alternative forms
- back scatter
- back-scatter
Etymology
Back-formation from backscattering.
Noun
backscatter (countable and uncountable, plural backscatters)
- (physics) The deflection of particles and/or radiation through angles greater than 90 degrees to the original direction of travel.
- The particles and/or radiation deflected in this manner.
- (military) A portion of the energy of electromagnetic radiation such as a laser or radio waves that is scattered back in the direction of the source of radiation by an obscurant.
- (computing) The sending of IP packets to essentially random addresses in response to incoming packets that have a spoofed origin.
- Synonyms: blowback, outscatter
Translations
Verb
backscatter (third-person singular simple present backscatters, present participle backscattering, simple past and past participle backscattered)
- To scatter particles and/or radiation back to the direction from which they come.
Translations
backscatter From the web:
- what backscatter means
- what is backscatter radiation
- what is backscatter communication
- what is backscattered electron
- what is backscatter email
- what is backscatter traffic
- what are backscattered electrons and secondary electrons
- what is backscatter in radiography
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