presspack

Any of various types of packaging that are sealed using a mechanical press.

Noun

  1. Any of various types of packaging that are sealed using a mechanical press.
    • The "presspack" container/dispenser from Bio-Pak needs only mild pressure at the top of the container to dispense the product. - 1976, Industrial Design - Volume 23, page 66:
    • […] presspack cans, compack cans, aluminium foil two-chamber cans and the alu-presspack and alu-compack systems are compared. - 1980, Packaging Abstracts - Volume 37, page 328:
    • 164. Vacuum drying cabinet for evacuating and pre-drying of the presspacks of copper coated sheets or laminates, complete with accessories. - 1982, India. Ministry of Finance, National Budget, page 77:
  2. A type of package for semiconductor devices, in which the chips are placed in a housing and then compressed using a mechanical press.
    • Figure 1.4 shows a modern thyristor encapsulated in a presspack housing and Figure 1.5 illustrates a typical interdigitated gate geometry in a high-power thyristor; the black areas indicate silicon ( Si0₂ ) and the...
    • For current Si IGBTs, there are two basic package types—the first is a standard attached die, wire bond package utilizing soft-solder and wire-bonds as contacts, while the second is the presspack, which employs...
    • The complex construction of a presspack IGBT results in a considerable increased demand on the precise alignment of a multitude of parts and on the allowable part tolerances compared to a semiconductor module. - 2011,...

Origin

From press + pack, where press refers to a device that applies pressure.

Forms

presspacks

Noun Entry 2

  1. A collection of promotional materials that is made available to members of the press.
    • The great majority called at the Information Division and were briefed and provided with background information and 'presspacks'. - 1981, Malta. Information Division, Reports on the Working of Government Departments for...
    • The information for this paragraph was derived from Tara TV's presspack, marketing surveys and promotional material kindly supplied by Cathal O'Doherty at Tara TV, London, interviewed by author on 12 October 1998. -...
    • Genre categorisation can be much richer and more complex than a retrospective taxonomic exercise reliant on the film alone: contemporary audiences derived their genre expectations from a wide range of studio-based...
  2. A group of journalists who are covering an event.
    • Kamau barked at the officer in Kikuyu, instructing him to be more careful, but the presspack, seeing Vanna fall, started shouting and running towards the house. - 1993, Sara J. Cameron, Natural Enemies, page 30:
    • We were out of the studios, slipping away from a presspack and some buzzing publicists, and heading down Festive Street to Wagtail Park. - 2009, Cornelius Kane, The Unscratchables, page 163:
    • Once, apparently stage winners would do a full-blown press conference in front of the full-accredited presspack in the main media centre; now there were no more than a dozen in the video room and the rest watched and...

Origin

From press + pack, where press refers to the domain of journalism.

Forms

presspacks

Verb

  1. To pack, or prepare for packing, by means of a press.
    • One broker states that a considerable quantity of wool for export is now presspacked, jute canvas and iron hoops similar to those used on South American bales being employed. - 1915 June, Robert P. Skinner, “Wool Bales...
    • Newspapaers are usually packed for this market in bales of 280 pounds each, although consignments of 200 and 560 pounds are also received, each bale presspacked, wrapped in burlap, and bound with four iron hoops. -...
    • South Korea currently bans packaging that is presspacked, coated, or shrink-wrapped in PVC. - 2010, Kit L. Yam, The Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology, page 415:

Forms

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