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packet stations

packet stations is the plural of packet station.

Meaning of packet station

Noun

packet station (plural packet stations)

  1. (dated) A ferry port used by packets (ferries) carrying mail and passengers over short distances, e.g. across a channel.
    • A branch line was to run from Newport to Ryde, which had by then attained considerable importance as the packet station providing the quickest access to the island from London, via Portsmouth.1946 March and April, K. Westcott Jones, “The Isle of Wight Central Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 112

Questions about packet stations

What is packet stations the plural of?
Packet stations is the plural of packet station.

Words near packet stations in the dictionary

  1. packet losses
  2. packet radio
  3. packet sniffer
  4. packet sniffers
  5. packet station
  6. packet stations
  7. packet switching
  8. packet tracer
  9. packet tracers
  10. packet-boat
  11. packet-boats

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