Packet may refer to:
* A small container or pouch
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Packet (container)
A packet is a small bag or pouch, made from paper, foil, plastic film or another type of packing material, often used to contain single-use quantities of foods or consumer goods such as ketchup or shampoo. Packets are commonly opened by making ...
, a small single use container
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Cigarette pack
A pack or packet of cigarettes (also informally called fag packet in British slang; as in the idiom "back of a fag packet" or "fag-packet calculation") is a rectangular container, mostly of paperboard, which contains cigarettes. The pack is des ...
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Sugar packet
A sugar packet is a delivery method for one serving of sugar or other sweetener. Sugar packets are commonly supplied in restaurants, coffeehouses, and tea houses, where they are preferred to sugar bowls or sugar dispensers for reasons of neatness, ...
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Network packet
In telecommunications and computer networking, a network packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-switched network. A packet consists of control information and user data; the latter is also known as the ''payload''. Control inform ...
, a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-mode computer network
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Packet radio, a form of amateur radio data communications using the AX25 protocol
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Packet trade, regularly scheduled cargo, passenger, and mail trade conducted by ship
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Packet boat
Packet boats were medium-sized boats designed for domestic mail, passenger, and freight transportation in European countries and in North American rivers and canals, some of them steam driven. They were used extensively during the 18th and 19th ...
, type of boat used for scheduled mail or passenger service
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C-82 Packet
The C-82 Packet is a twin-engine, twin-boom cargo aircraft designed and built by Fairchild Aircraft. It was used briefly by the United States Army Air Forces and the successor United States Air Force following World War II.
Design and developm ...
, a U.S. military transport aircraft
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Packet Newspapers
Packet Newspapers (Cornwall) Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Newsquest media group, which publishes the ''Packet'' series of weekly tabloid newspapers.
The series is named after the Falmouth Packet service, which commenced operati ...
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Package (disambiguation)
Package may refer to:
Containers or Enclosures
* Packaging and labeling, enclosing or protecting products
* Mail, items larger than a letter
* Chip package or chip carrier
* Electronic packaging, in electrical engineering
* Automotive package, ...
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Pack (disambiguation)
Pack or packs may refer to:
Places
* Pack, Austria, a municipality in Styria, Austria
* Pack, Missouri
* Chefornak Airport, Alaska, by ICAO airport code
Groups of animals or people
* Pack (canine), family structure of wild animals of the ...
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Kit (disambiguation)
Kit may refer to:
Places
* Kitt, Indiana, US, formerly Kit
* Kit, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province
* Kit Hill, Cornwall, England
People
* Kit (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
* Kit (surname)
Animals
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MacGuffin
In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is an object, device, or event that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself. The term was originated by Angus MacPhail for ...
- 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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