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Definition of Packing

1. Noun. Any material used especially to protect something.

2. Noun. The enclosure of something in a package or box.

3. Noun. Carrying something in a pack on the back. "The backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts"

Definition of Packing

1. n. The act or process of one who packs.

Definition of Packing

1. Verb. (present participle of pack) ¹

2. Noun. The action of the verb. ¹

3. Noun. As a concrete noun. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Packing

1. material used to pack [n -S]

Medical Definition of Packing

1. 1. Filling a natural cavity, a wound, or a mold with some material. 2. The material so used. 3. The application of a pack. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Packing

packetizers packetizes packetizing packetlike packets packfong packfongs packhorse packhorse bridge packhorse bridges

packhorses packhouse packhouses packie packies packing (current term) packing-case packing box packing case packing fudge

packing heat packing material packing needle packing nut packing on packing plant packing process packinghouse packinghouses packings

Literary usage of Packing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"He did not participate In the actual packing, but "stood on the truck and ... In the judgment of the foregoing employees of Smith & Hicks, the packing was ..."

2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"TEXAS packing CO. either the valuation placed upon the property used was grossly inadequate or the cost of operation greatly underestimated. ..."

3. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1894)
"PICKING AND packing. A box ol cherries properly packed for shipment, ... The picking and packing of the cherry is one of the most important matters in the ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"Superseal plastic metallic packing is a plastic sealing material to which ... The packing is supplied in the spiral or ring form of the ordinary familiar ..."

5. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1863)
"The number of hogs packed the present season, it will be seen, is over four million head, being an increase over the packing of the season of 1861-62 of ..."

6. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which by Master Car-Builders' Association, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Calvin A. Smith, Leander Garey, Matthias Nace Forney (1888)
"The bolts passing through the packing- blocks are termed packing-bolts. ... A spring or other contrivance for spreading out the packing of a piston or valve ..."

7. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1909)
"The packing industry is said to have been carried on in the New England States as early as, but not in the way the modern business is conducted. ..."

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