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Webster 1913 Edition
Packing
Pack′ing
,Noun.
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.
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
. – Packing sheet
. (a)
A large cloth for packing goods
. (b)
A sheet prepared for packing hydropathic patients.
Webster 1828 Edition
Packing
PACK'ING
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PACK'ING
,Noun.
Definition 2024
packing
packing
English
Verb
packing
- present participle of pack
Derived terms
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