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Definition of Close-packed
1. Adjective. Packed especially tightly.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Close-packed
Literary usage of Close-packed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... for cottages about the beginning of the present century led to the construction
of what are called " courts," being narrow culs de tac, close packed, ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1919)
"equally close packed. The two are closely related, and each can be produced from
the other by a simple gliding, as will be shown later. ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1888)
"... 1881: ice heavy and close packed in strait, 27 days; ice heavy and a little
water in strait, 23 days; foggy, 5 days; strong gales and snow, 5 days. ..."
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