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Packing

Packing Meaning & Definition
Packing Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Packing?

[n] carrying something in a pack on the back; "the backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts"
[n] the enclosure of something in a package or box
[n] any material used especially to protect something

Synonyms | Synonyms for Packing: backpacking | boxing | packing material | wadding

Related Terms | Find terms related to Packing: air express | airfreight | airlift | allocation | asportation | assignment | bearing | bottling | boxing | bush | bushing | canning | carriage | carry | carrying | cartage | collocation | conveyance | crating | deployment | deposit | deposition | disposition | doubling | doublure | drayage | emplacement | encasement | expressage | facing | ferriage | filler | filling | freight | freightage | gasket | gland | haulage | hauling | inlay | inlayer | insole | interlineation | lading | lighterage | liner | lining | loading | localization | locating | location | lugging | package | packaging | padding | pinpointing | placement | placing | portage | porterage | positioning | posting | putting | railway express | reposition | shipment | shipping | situation | spotting | stationing | stopping | storage | stowage | stuffing | tampon | telpherage | tinning | toting | transport | transportation | transshipment | truckage | wadding | waft | waftage | wagonage | wainscot

See Also | blister pack | bubble pack | bubble wrap | bundling | cardboard | carry | composition board | enclosing | enclosure | envelopment | excelsior | inclosure | material | stuff | wood shavings

Packing In Webster's Dictionary

\Pack"ing\, n. 1. The act or process of one who packs. 2. Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close. Specifically (Mach.): A substance or piece used to make a joint impervious; as: (a) A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint. (b) The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides. (c) A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc. 3. (Masonry) Same as {Filling}. [Rare in the U. S.] 4. A trick; collusion. [Obs.] --Bale. {Cherd packing} (Bridge Building), the arrangement, side by side, of several parts, as bars, diagonals, a post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord. --Waddell. {Packing box}, a stuffing box. See under {Stuffing}. {Packing press}, a powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay, etc. {Packing ring}. See {Packing}, 2 (c), and Illust. of {Piston}. {Packing sheet}. (a) A large cloth for packing goods. (b) A sheet prepared for packing hydropathic patients.

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