Packet may refer to:
* A small container or pouch
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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
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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-the-envelope calculation, "back of a fag packet" or "fag-packet calculation") is a rectangular Packaging, container, mostly of paperboard ...
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Sugar packet
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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
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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 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
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C-82 Packet, a U.S. military transport aircraft
* ''
Packet Newspapers'', British newspaper group
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Package (disambiguation)
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Pack (disambiguation)
Pack or packs may refer to:
Music
* Packs (band), a Canadian indie rock band
* ''Packs'' (album), by Your Old Droog
* ''Packs'', a Berner album
Places
* Pack, Styria, defunct Austrian municipality
* Pack, Missouri, United States (US)
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Kit (disambiguation)
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MacGuffin - A plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or another motivator popularized in the 1930s by
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 featu ...
: "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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