packings

Noun

packing (countable and uncountable, plural packings)

1. The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
2. The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
3. The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
4. The forming of players into a scrum.
5. Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
   • 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
6. 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).2013, Eugene L. Magad, Total Materials Management, →ISBN, page 375

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