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message - technical definition
A complete thought or idea prepared for transmission. A message may consist of a single discrete set of data prepared for transmission as a whole, or it may be segmented, fragmented, or otherwise divided into multiple parts of the whole in the form of frames, blocks, packets, cells or other sets of data for enhanced effectiveness in transmission, switching or routing, format conversion, storage, etc.At the destination, the fragments or segments are reassembled into the complete message.
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