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pack·ing

(păk′ĭng)

1. The act or process of one that packs.

2. The processing and packaging of manufactured products, especially food products.

3. A material used to prevent leakage or seepage, as around a pipe joint.

a. The insertion of gauze or other material into a body cavity or wound for therapeutic purposes.

b. The material so used; a pack.

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packing

(ˈpækɪŋ)

a. material used to cushion packed goods

b. (as modifier): a packing needle.

2. (Commerce) the packaging of foodstuffs

3. (Medicine) med

a. the application of a medical pack

b. gauze or other absorbent material for packing a wound

4. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing sheets of material, esp paper, used to cover the platen or impression cylinder of a letterpress machine

5. (Mechanical Engineering) any substance or material used to make watertight or gastight joints, esp in a stuffing box

6. (Mechanical Engineering) engineering pieces of material of various thicknesses used to adjust the position of a component or machine before it is secured in its correct position or alignment

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pack•ing

(ˈpæk ɪŋ)

n.

1. the act or work of a person or thing that packs.

2. the preparation and packaging of foodstuffs, esp. to be sold at wholesale.

3. the way in which something is packed.

4. material used to cushion or protect goods packed in a container.

5. material compressed inside a stuffing box or the like to prevent leakage.

[1350–1400]

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Noun	1.	packing - any material used especially to protect something packing material, wadding material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" cardboard, composition board - a stiff moderately thick paper excelsior, wood shavings - thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing
	2.	packing - the enclosure of something in a package or box boxing enclosing, envelopment, inclosure, enclosure - the act of enclosing something inside something else bundling - the act of binding something into a bundle
	3.	packing - carrying something in a pack on the back; "the backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts" backpacking carry - the act of carrying something

Translations

حَزْم، رَزْمغِلاف، تَغْليف

baleníobal

indpakningpakning

Verpackung Dichtung Packen

embalaje preparación de las maletas

emballage empaquetage

becsomagolásgöngyöleg

pökkunumbúîir, pakkning

imballaggio confezione guarnizione

emballasje innpakning pakking

комплектовочный

balenie

pakiranje

ambalaj malzemesibavul hazırlama

包装包装用材料

packing

[ˈpækɪŋ]

A. N

1. (Comm) (= product wrapping, act of packing) → embalaje m
see also postage

2. [of suitcase] to do one's packing → hacer la(s) maleta(s)

B. CPD packing case N → cajón m de embalaje
packing density N (Comput) → densidad f de compacidad
packing department N (for mail, transport) → departamento m de embalaje
packing house N → envasadora f
packing list N lista de lo que se va a meter o ya se ha metido en la maleta
packing plant N → envasadora f
packing slip N → hoja f de embalaje

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

packing

[ˈpækɪŋ] n

(for goods) → emballage m

(= preparing luggage) to do one's packing → faire ses bagagespacking box n (mainly US) → caisse f d'emballagepacking case n → caisse f d'emballage

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

packing

(= act) (in suitcases) → Packen nt; (in factories etc) → Verpackung f; to do one’s packing → packen

(= material) → Verpackung f; (for leak) → Dichtung f

packing

packing case

n → Kiste f

packing house

n (US) → Abpackbetrieb m

packing list

n (Comm) → Packliste f

packing plant

n (US) = packing house

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

packing

[ˈpækɪŋ] n

a. (of luggage) to do one's packing → fare le valigie or i bagagli

b. (material) → (materiale m da) imballaggio

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

pack

(pӕk) noun

1. things tied up together or put in a container, especially to be carried on one's back. He carried his luggage in a pack on his back.

2. a set of (fifty-two) playing-cards. a pack of cards.

3. a number or group of certain animals. a pack of wolves / a wolf-pack.

4. a packet. a pack of cigarettes.

verb

1. to put (clothes etc) into a bag, suitcase or trunk for a journey. I've packed all I need and I'm ready to go.

2. to come together in large numbers in a small space. They packed into the hall to hear his speech.

ˈpacking noun

1. the act of putting things in bags, cases etc. He has done his packing tonight as he is leaving in the morning.

2. the materials (paper, string etc) used to wrap things for posting etc. He unwrapped the vase and threw away the packing.

ˈpacking-case noun

a (large) wooden box in which goods are packed and sent from place to place.

packed (out)

containing as many people as possible. The theatre/meeting was packed (out).

pack off

to send away, usually quickly and without wasting time. They packed the children off to bed early.

pack up

1. to put into containers in order to take somewhere else. She packed up the contents of her house.

2. to stop working or operating. We'd only gone five miles when the engine packed up.

pack·ing

n. tapón, taponamiento.

acto de llenar una cavidad con gasa o algodón;

envoltura.

packing

n (act) taponamiento; (material) gasa u otro material usado para llenar una cavidad, (once packed) taponamiento, tapón m; nasal — taponamiento nasal

References in classic literature ?

I rather pride myself on my packing. Packing is one of those many things that I feel I know more about than any other person living.

However, I did not say anything, but started the packing. It seemed a longer job than I had thought it was going to be; but I got the bag finished at last, and I sat on it and strapped it.

The packing was done at 12.50; and Harris sat on the big hamper, and said he hoped nothing would be found broken.

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In group A posterior nasal packing was done with Foley's catheter.

TO COMPARE EFFICACY and DISCOMFORT IN POSTERIOR NASAL PACKING WITH FOLEY'S CATHETERS VERSUS BIPP GAUZE PACKING IN CASES OF POSTERIOR EPISTAXIS

Musin, an independent mathematician based in Los Angeles, has used coding ideas to tackle a problem closely related to sphere packing. Called the kissing problem, it asks how many spheres can fit around, or kiss, a single central sphere.

Oddballs: it's easier to pack spheres in some dimensions than in others

PVA sponge packing is an improvement over other fibrous packing materials, such as cotton and gauze.

Nasal packing. (Product Marketplace)

AC Technology calls this a "unified filling/post-filling/residual-stress analysis." C-Pack utilizes pvT data from the materials database in order to calculate local part density from pressure and temperature during packing. The upcoming release 4.0 will add a calculation of crystallinity distribution throughout the part--and through the part thickness--as a further refinement to shrinkage accuracy.

Mold-analysis software developing at a rapid pace

In 1611, Johannes Kepler proposed that identical spheres can crowd together no more tightly than oranges do in a grocer's stack, a formation called face-centered cubic packing. In the 19th century, Carl Friedrich Gauss weighed in with a partial proof of Kepler's conjecture.

M&Ms pack more tightly than spheres

The most common are the use of nasal packing (with various materials left in place for various amounts of time), septal splints, and quilting sutures to approximate the septal flaps.

Fibrin glue prevents complications of septal surgery: Findings in a series of 100 patients. (Original Article)

These packs are a welcome alternative to more cumbersome gauze packing.

Epistaxis packing. (Product Marketplace)

In Wilks' case, the Apollonian packing was made up of circles with integer curvatures.

Circle Game

Approximately 10% of all cases of epistaxis are severe enough to warrant the more aggressive interventions, such as posterior packing, operative vessel ligation, or angiography with embolization.

Management pitfalls in the use of embolization for the treatment of severe epistaxis

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