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packing Definition

pack·ing (pak′iŋ)

noun

  1. the act or process of a person or thing that packs; specif.,
    1. the large-scale, esp. commercial, processing and packaging of meats, fruits, or vegetables
    2. Med. the filling of a wound or cavity with gauze, etc. to permit drainage and prevent closure
  2. any material used to pack, as excelsior, cardboard, etc. used in packages to cushion and brace the contents, a substance put around valves to make them watertight, etc.

packing Synonyms

packing

n.

  1. The preparation of goods for shipment or storage

    preparation, arrangement, compression, consignment, disposal, disposition, sorting, grading, laying away.

  2. Material used to fill space

    stuffing, wadding, waste, styrofoam, peanuts*; see also filling.

packing Usage Examples

Preposition: of

sphere: The structure is a cubic close packing of equal spheres.

Converse of object

  • slip: More disturbed or slipped packing was located above this, layers 3057 and 3064.
  • send: The child in this story helps the three little pigs get the better of the big bad wolf who is sent packing!

Adjective modifier

  • polytetrahedral: The size evolution of polytetrahedral packings enables us to study the development of bulk liquid structure in finite systems.
  • hexagonal: Conditions under which the perfect hexagonal packing of curved tubular structures may exist are formulated.
  • nasal: No definite advantage from the patient's point of view has been demonstrated by the use of tubes and nasal packing.
  • cubic: The structure is a cubic close packing of equal spheres.
  • dense: And, of course, because of the dense packing, any flow through the sand would be very slow.
  • random: This motivates the study of current theories both regular and random sphere packing.

Modifies a noun

  • crate: He lived in a tiny wooden packing crate little more than a meter wide, with bars on the front.
  • density: That would yield a switch packing density approximately 120 times greater than present-day integrated circuits.
  • slip: Note: The value of the goods does not appear on the packing slip.
  • charge: There is also a link from all our order forms to a page of world postage & packing charges.
  • stone: This fill consisted almost entirely of collapsed packing stones, which appear to have been smashed from a piece of sandstone.

Noun used with modifier

  • polystyrene: The embankments were formed from blocks of polystyrene packing material, glued down and shaped with a knife.
  • vacuum: Newer technologies such as vacuum packing and mass deacidification are under review to determine their potential for future use.
  • gland: Proper lubrication of the gland packing requires a certain leakage rate.
  • sphere: This motivates the study of current theories both regular and random sphere packing.
  • cardboard: Pack n Move - Packing made Easy Pack n Move supplies cardboard packing boxes for moving home to home movers throughout the UK.
  • crystal: Regions, weakly defined by NMR or possibly affected by crystal packing, are determined less confidently.