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datagram

datagram noun: a packet of data passed across a network.

Noun

datagram (plural datagrams)

  1. A packet of data passed across a network.
    • The pseudo header conceptually prefixed to the UDP header contains the source address, the destination address, the protocol, and the UDP length. This information gives protection against misrouted datagrams.1980 August 28, Jon Postel, “User Datagram Protocol”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 768

datagram meaning in Tamil

datagram in Tamil

தரவு ஏடு, தரவு இறக்கம்

Examples of datagram in a sentence

  • The Modifiable Data Base is a very nice system and is, generally, highly recommended* It is memory dependent and, once formated,^([sic]) (datagrammed) is not changeable.1981 October, Alfred R. Dixon Jr., “Data Base Management”, in Terry Tufts, editor, The Harvest, volume 3, number 2, Arlington Heights...
  • the crowd mills about datagrammed packets flowing without words to say.1999 October 30, Decklin Foster, “[haiku] nyc right about now.”, in alt.teens.poetry.and.stuff (Usenet), archived from the original on 05...

Forms of datagram

Noun
pluraldatagrams
alternative formdatagramme
Verb
third-person singular presentdatagrams
present participledatagramming
past participledatagrammed
pastdatagrammed

Origin of datagram

From data + -gram.

Words formed from datagram

Questions about datagram

What does datagram mean?
Datagram means a packet of data passed across a network.
What is datagram in Tamil?
Datagram in Tamil is தரவு ஏடு, தரவு இறக்கம். See Datagram meaning in Tamil.
How do you use datagram in a sentence?
The Modifiable Data Base is a very nice system and is, generally, highly recommended* It is memory dependent and, once formated,^([sic]) (datagrammed) is not changeable.
What part of speech is datagram?
Datagram is a noun.
What is the plural of datagram?
The plural of datagram is datagrams.

Words near datagram in the dictionary

  1. Datagan
  2. dataglove
  3. datagloves
  4. Datagnon
  5. Datagnons
  6. datagram
  7. datagramme
  8. datagrammed
  9. datagrammes
  10. datagramming
  11. datagrams

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Adapted from Wiktionary: datagram (page history and authors); datagram (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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