Packet

A term first coined by Donald Davies in 1965, a packet is a segment of data sent from one computer or network device to another computer or network device over a network. Packets may contain such information as its source, destination, size and other useful information, helping the packet get to its destination and then being able to be read once it has arrived.

Also see: Frame, Game definitions, Header, LSP, Network definitions, Packet monkey, Packet switching, PAD