Packet may refer to: * A small container or pouch **

Packet (container) A packet or sachet is a small bag or pouch, made from paper, Aluminium foil, foil, plastic film or another type of Packaging and labeling, packing material, often used to contain disposable product, single-use quantities of foods or consumer goo ...

, a small single use container **

Cigarette pack A pack or packet of cigarettes (also informally called fag packet in British slang; as in the idiom Back-of-the-envelope calculation, "back of a fag packet" or "fag-packet calculation") is a rectangular Packaging, container, mostly of paperboard ...

et **

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 neatnes ...

Network packet In telecommunications and computer networking, a network packet is a formatted unit of Data (computing), data carried by a packet-switched network. A packet consists of control information and user data; the latter is also known as the ''Payload ...

, a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-mode computer network *

Packet radio In digital radio, packet radio is the application of packet switching techniques to digital radio communications. Packet radio uses a packet switching Communication protocol, protocol as opposed to circuit switching or message switching protocols ...

, a form of amateur radio data communications using the AX25 protocol *

Packet trade Generally, packet trade is any regularly scheduled cargo, passenger and mail trade conducted by boat or ship. The boats or ships are called " packet boats or packet ships" as their original function was to carry mail. A "packet ship" was originall ...

, regularly scheduled cargo, passenger, and mail trade conducted by ship *

Packet boat Packet boats were medium-sized boats designed mainly for domestic mail and freight transport in European countries and in North American rivers and canals. Eventually including basic passenger accommodation, they were used extensively during t ...

, type of boat used for scheduled mail or passenger service *

C-82 Packet The C-82 Packet is a twin-engine, Twin-boom aircraft, 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. ...

, a U.S. military transport aircraft * ''

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 ...

'', British newspaper group

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