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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.
The most ubiquitous circuit-switching network is the telephone system, which links together wire segments to create a single unbroken line for each telephone call. The other common communications method is packet switching, which divides messages into packets and sends each packet individually.