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packing

[pak-ing] / ˈpæk ɪŋ /
NOUN
material used to fill space
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Marking the last week of production on site, a company spokesperson said: "A significant milestone was reached this week, as operations across production and packing came to an end."

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Yes, you still may savor the glory of a great player wearing your colors, but there’s a good chance they’ll be packing up shop by the time they’re 25.

From Slate Aug. 28, 2026

The hand-spun yarn dyed in natural colours is woven on handlooms, packing in between 300 and several thousand knots per square inch, depending on the intricacy of the design.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

Rising shipments of high-end optical transceivers and growing adoption of technologies such as near-field packing and co-packaged optics are likely growth drivers, they say in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

If Nan was searching for fun in the silverware drawers, we’d be packing up sooner than I thought.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

In 1773 physicist and mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange found that the arrangement along a triangular lattice is optimal—so long as you only consider ordered packings.

From Scientific American Jun. 6, 2023

In geometry, he made key discoveries in the study of symmetries, sphere packings, lattices, polyhedra and tilings, including properties of quasi-periodic tilings as developed by Roger Penrose.

From Nature May 22, 2020

Hexagonal arrangements of cells are like closest geometrical packings of disks.

From Scientific American Oct. 25, 2017

The headphones were not out of box; they had been a post-Christmas return & were in their original box & inner packings & plastic wrappings untouched by human hands.

From New York Times Feb. 12, 2016

The coil and guides must be adjusted so that the plunger does not touch the coil anywhere during a stroke, packings being placed, if necessary, under coil or guides.

From Things To Make by Archibald Williams




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