packing

The action of the verb.

Noun

The action of the verb.
1. The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
2. (sciences, mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
3. The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
4. (rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
As a concrete noun.
- A kind of fine Norwegian hay, used as packing in the finnesko to keep the feet warm and to make the fur boot fit firmly. - 1913, Captain R. F. Scott, Scott's Last Expedition Volume I:
1. Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
2. Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
  - Among the inner packings in use are expanded polystyrene (popcorn), plastic-encapsulated air (air bubbles), various types of paper products, foam-in-place, molded polystyrene, and corrugated partitions (egg crating). -...
3. A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
4. Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
  - Packing in a packed bed, or a column such as a distillation column or a chromatography column
Clipping of meatpacking.