Packing
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Packing may refer to:
Logistics
- Packaging and labeling
- Relocation, also known as moving.
- Moving company, a business that puts goods into boxes to protect them and to make them easier to carry while in transit
- Meat packing industry, the process of cutting up a slaughtered animal into saleable products.
Engineering
- Packing, also known as an O-ring or other type of Seal (mechanical), a term for a sealing material
- Structured packing, i.e. internals of a distillation column
Mathematics
- Sphere packing, a 3-dimensional mathematical problem
- Packing problems, a recreational mathematics approach
- Set packing, a classic computing problem
Other uses
- Backpacking
- Packing (firestopping), the process of installing backer materials, such as mineral wool in service penetrations
- Packing (phallus), the practice of wearing a phallic object inside the clothing to give the appearance of male genitals
- Packing and cracking, a method of creating voting districts to give one party an advantage over another. Packing creates a few "sacrificial" districts with an overwhelming majority for the party who is put at an overall disadvantage.
- Data structure alignment, as in bit-packing in computers
- Tourism
- Concealed carry, or packing, means to carry a concealed weapon
- An autism therapy involving wrapping children in cold wet sheets
See also
- All pages beginning with "Packing"
- All pages with titles containing Packing
- Pack (disambiguation)
- Packer (disambiguation)
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