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packing

About 6.40 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb present participle and gerund of pack
  2. noun The action of the verb. The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey. The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts. The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack. The forming of players into a scrum.
  3. noun The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
  4. noun The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
  5. noun The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
  6. noun The forming of players into a scrum.
  7. noun As a concrete noun. Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight. Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging. A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging. 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
  8. noun Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.

Similar words

backpacking wadding boxing packing material package packaged packet packaging luggage baggage

Often followed by

and of the up is in material density for

Word family

packings

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