Packing
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈpakɪŋ/
- US IPA: /ˈpækɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Origin
From pack (partly from the verb, partly from the noun) + -ing.
Verb
packing- Present participle of pack
Full definition of packing
Noun
packing
(plural packings)- The action of the verb.
- The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
- (sciences, mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
- The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
- (rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
- 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.
- Examples: Packing in a packed bed, or a column such as a distillation column or a chromatography column