antipacket

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noun

A record indicating that a previously transmitted packet of data was successfully received, and preventing it from being sent again to the same recipient.

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Meanings

nounantipacket (plural antipackets)

plural antipackets

  1. computingA record indicating that a previously transmitted packet of data was successfully received, and preventing it from being sent again to the same recipient.

    For lossless data delivery, we show that the buffer occupancy can be significantly reduced via fully antipacket dissemination.

    2016, Pin-Yu Chen, Meng-Hsuan Sung, Shin-Ming Cheng, “Buffer Occupancy and Delivery Reliability Tradeoffs for Epidemic Routing”, in arXiv

Origin

From anti- + packet.

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APA

antipacket. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antipacket

MLA

“antipacket.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antipacket. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antipacket,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antipacket.

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