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packet switching. n. A method of data transmission in which data is broken into small blocks that are transmitted over different channels and are reassembled into their original order at their destination.
Every packet that is transmitted over a packet-switching networkÃsuch as the Internet, the largest such network in existenceÃis constructed of two major pieces: the packet header and the data. Within the header are several distinct pieces of information about the packet itself.