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Vangie Beal
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(pak it) (n.) A piece of a message transmitted over a packet-switching network. See under packet switching. One of the key features of a packet is that it contains the destination address in addition to the data. In IP networks, packets are often called datagrams.

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Vangie Beal is a freelance business and technology writer covering Internet technologies and online business since the late '90s.

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