packing

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English

Etymology

From Middle English pakkynge; equivalent to pack (“verb and noun senses”) +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

Verb

packing

  1. present participle and gerund of pack

Derived terms

Terms derived from packing (verb)

Noun

packing (plural packings)

  1. The action of the verb.
    1. The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
    2. (sciences, mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
    3. The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
    4. (rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
  2. As a concrete noun.
    1. Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
      • 1913, Captain R. F. Scott, Scott's Last Expedition Volume I‎:
        A kind of fine Norwegian hay, used as packing in the finnesko to keep the feet warm and to make the fur boot fit firmly.
    2. Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
      • 2013, Eugene L. Magad, Total Materials Management, →ISBN, page 375:
        Among the inner packings in use are expanded polystyrene (popcorn), plastic-encapsulated air (air bubbles), various types of paper products, foam-in-place, molded polystyrene, and corrugated partitions (egg crating).
    3. A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
    4. Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
      Packing in a packed bed, or a column such as a distillation column or a chromatography column
  3. Clipping of meatpacking.

Adjective

packing (comparative more packing, superlative most packing)

  1. (slang) Having a large penis.

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