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packing

[pak-ing] / ˈpæk ɪŋ /
NOUN
material used to fill space
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She keeps some of the items under her bed, in packing bags and in her kitchen cabinets.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Behold the squatting, stance-intensive RS 5, the high-performance halo car of the 5 line, a proper dentist-killer packing 630 hp, courtesy of a plug-in hybrid augmentation of a turbocharged 2.9-liter V6.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The five-term senator said the categories of products receiving exemptions include corrugated paper cartons, plastic boxes, plastic bags, refrigeration and freezing equipment, packing and wrapping machinery, and seaweed and algae products.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

“We’re seeing across-the-board reduction of school attendance, substantial reduction in employees showing up to farm operations, packing sheds and in the fields. Construction has essentially come to a halt,” Arias said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

“I thought I told you to have this packing done yesterday.”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

His archives contain all sorts of investigations of possible packings and their properties, together with actual cardboard polyhedra, still ready to assemble:

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

Other packings are made from the ends of belts cut out in a circular form and treated with a lubricant.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various


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