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Found 1 definition: packing.

Pos: Noun

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun packing has 3 senses

1. packing(n = noun.substance) packing material, wadding - any material used especially to protect something;
is a kind of material, stuff
has particulars: cardboard, composition board, excelsior, wood shavings
Derived form verb pack₃

2. packing(n = noun.act) boxing - the enclosure of something in a package or box;
is a kind of enclosing, enclosure, envelopment, inclosure
has particulars: bundling
Derived form verb pack₁

3. packing(n = noun.act) backpacking - carrying something in a pack on the back; "the backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts"
is a kind of carry
Derived forms verb pack₄, verb pack₈

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

packing, n.

1. The act or process of one who packs. [1913 Webster]

2. Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close. [1913 Webster]

3. Same as Filling. [1913 Webster]

4. A trick; collusion. Bale. [1913 Webster]

Cherd packing (Bridge Building), the arrangement, side by side, of several parts, as bars, diagonals, a post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord. Waddell. -- Packing box, a stuffing box. See under Stuffing. -- Packing press, a powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay, etc. -- Packing ring. See Packing, 2 (c), and Illust. of Piston. -- Packing sheet. (a) A large cloth for packing goods. (b) A sheet prepared for packing hydropathic patients.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

packing, n.
1 the act or process of packing.
2 material used as padding to pack esp. fragile articles.
3 material used to seal a join or assist in lubricating an axle.

Idiom:
packing-case a case (usu. wooden) or framework for packing goods in.

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Location

N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.