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Dictionary definition: message
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- A Dictionary of Computing
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Copyright© A Dictionary of Computing 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. (Hide copyright information)
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message
1.
The unit of information transferred by a
message switching
system. Messages may be of any length, from a few bits to a complete file, and no part of a message is released to its final recipient until all of the message has been received at the network node adjacent to the destination.
2.
Another name (deprecated) for
packet. The distinction between ...