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packet | data |

As nouns the difference between packet and data

is that packet is a small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits while data is (time) date.

As a verb packet

is to make up into a packet or bundle.

packet

English

Alternative forms

* pacquet (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits.
  • (lb) 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 ().
  • *
  • *:With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon , river packet , the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
  • (lb) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
  • *
  • *:With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get.
  • (lb) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks ().
  • (lb) A plastic bag.
  • *2012' August 6, Wendy Knowler], ''[http://www.iol.co.za/blogs/wendy-knowler-s-consumer-watch-1.1608/plastic-packets-who-bags-the-profits-1.1356896 Plastic ' packets : who bags the profits?

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make up into a packet or bundle.
  • To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
  • * Ford
    • Her husband was packeted to France.
  • To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
  • 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

    See also

    * datagram * packetlike * packet radio * packet switching, packet-switching

    References

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    data

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (electronics)

    Noun

    (wikipedia data) (-) or plural noun
  • English plurals: Pieces of information.
  • (uncountable, collectively) Information, especially in a scientific or computational context.
  • *
    • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere.
  • (computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.

    • Usage notes

    * This word is more often used as an uncountable noun with a singular verb than as a plural noun with singular datum. * The definition of data'' in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary] and is meant to distinguish ''data'' from ''information . However, this distinction is largely ignored by the computing profession.[http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1957/1/Cm1My.pdf

    Derived terms

    * big data * databank * database * datasheet * data acquisition * data analysis * data domain * data element * data entry * data farming * data hiding * data integrity * data maintenance * data management * data mining * data modeling * data path, datapath * data processing * data recovery * data set * data sink * data source * data warehouse * metadata * primary data * raw data

    References

    * (The American Heritage Dictionary's usage note on 'data') * Calpundit: YOU SAY DAY-TA, I SAY DAA-TA * John Quiggin: Data is not the plural of datum * johnaugust.com: ‘Data’ is singular

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