Packet

Packet may refer to:

• A small container or pouch
• Packet (container), a small single use container
• Cigarette packet
• Sugar packet
• Network packet, a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-mode computer network
• Packet radio, a form of amateur radio data communications using the AX25 protocol
• Packet trade, regularly scheduled cargo, passenger, and mail trade conducted by ship
• Packet boat, type of boat used for scheduled mail or passenger service
• C-82 Packet, a U.S. military transport aircraft
• Packet Newspapers, British newspaper group

See also

• Package (disambiguation)
• Pack (disambiguation)
• Kit (disambiguation)
• MacGuffin - A plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or another motivator popularized in the 1930s by Alfred Hitchcock: "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?'"