packet

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

Summary

packet is an unit of information[1]. packet draws 141 Wikipedia views per month (unit_of_information category, ranking #10 of 38).[2]

Key Facts

  • packet's instance of is recorded as unit of information[3].
  • packet's instance of is recorded as Protocol data unit[4].
  • packet's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bytz[5].
  • packet's used by is recorded as packet-switched network[6].
  • packet's used by is recorded as Transmission Control Protocol[7].
  • packet's has characteristic is recorded as packet size[8].
  • packet's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as datapakke[9].
  • packet's Treccani Vocabulary ID is recorded as pacchetto1[10].
  • packet's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 158379750[11].
  • packet's Wolfram Language unit code is recorded as "DataPackets"[12].
  • packet's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 07295804-n[13].
  • packet's MetaSat ID is recorded as packet[14].
  • packet's Treccani's Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID is recorded as pacchetto[15].
  • packet's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C158379750[16].
  • packet's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as computer-science/network-packet[17].
  • packet's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as physics-and-astronomy/packets-communication[18].
  • packet's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as earth-and-planetary-sciences/packet-communication[19].
  • packet's Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID is recorded as packet[20].

Why It Matters

packet draws 141 Wikipedia views per month (unit_of_information category, ranking #10 of 38).[2] packet has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] packet is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). packet. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/packet
MLA “packet.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/packet.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_packet_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{packet}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/packet}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): packet — https://4ort.xyz/entity/packet (retrieved 2026-05-03)

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