datagram

• datagramme

From data +‎ -gram.

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datagram (plural datagrams)

1. (networking) A packet of data passed across a network.
   • 1980 August 28, Jon Postel, “User Datagram Protocol”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 768:

     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.

• Although the specifications of the Internet Protocol say that datagrams are what pass through the network, the word packet is more commonly used.

datagram (third-person singular simple present datagrams, present participle datagramming, simple past and past participle datagrammed)

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   • 1981 October, Alfred R. Dixon Jr., “Data Base Management”, in Terry Tufts, editor, The Harvest, volume 3, number 2, Arlington Heights, Ill.: Northern Illinois Apple Users Group, →OCLC, page 13, column 1:

     The Modifiable Data Base is a very nice system and is, generally, highly recommended* It is memory dependent and, once formated, (datagrammed) is not changeable.

   • 1992 July 31, Dave Pierson, “Uploads to wuarchive.wustl.edu”, in rec.railroad‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 2025-06-05:

     >* How does the dispatch station know where the trains are? Is it
     >just by the engineer notifying them, or is it done by some computerized
     >system in the track?
     Varies. Most common is by track circuits, in which the train indicates occupancy of a "block" by shorting the rails together. This gets "datagrammed" to the CTC center. (short hand, simplified description).

   • 1999 October 30, Decklin Foster, “ nyc right about now.”, in alt.teens.poetry.and.stuff‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 2025-06-05:

     the crowd mills about datagrammed packets flowing without words to say.