1. noun /ˈpakɪt/
a) A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits.
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
b) 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.
2. verb /ˈpakɪt/
a) To make up into a packet or bundle.
b) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
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