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packet

formatted unit of data carried by all packet-switching networks
Intangible unit_of_information Q214111

Facts

3 properties
Instance of
unit of information, Protocol data unit[2]
Has characteristic
packet size[5]
Used by
packet-switched network, Transmission Control Protocol[3][4]
🏷️ Also known as
en network packet en packet ar رزمة بيانات ar رزمة المُعطيات cs Paket cs Packet da Frame da Ethernet pakke da Ethernetpakke da Data frame da Packet da Datagram da Ip-datapakke da Data packet da Ethernet frame da LAN pakke da LAN packet da LAN frame da Ip-pakke da Datapakke
🔖 Identifiers · 11
OpenAlex ID
C158379750
Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID
packet
Freebase ID
/m/0bytz
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
datapakke
MetaSat ID
packet
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
158379750
ScienceDirect topic ID
computer-science/network-packet, physics-and-astronomy/packets-communication, earth-and-planetary-sciences/packet-communication
Treccani Vocabulary ID
pacchetto1
Treccani's Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID
pacchetto
Wolfram Language unit code
"DataPackets"
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
07295804-n

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🔗 Connections
← Has use 3
iptables, Express Data Path, Nemesis
Instance of 2
unit of information, Protocol data unit
← Uses 2
packet switching, packet analyzer
Used by 1
Transmission Control Protocol
← FactGrid item ID 1
Stapleton
← Protocol 1
PCI Express
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Summary

packet is an unit of information[1].

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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