Packing
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Packing may refer to:
- Packing (moving industry), the process of goods into boxes to make them easier for removalists to carry and to protect them while in transit with moving companies.
- Packing (travel industry), the process of loading items into suitcases to make them easier to carry and to protect them while traveling
- Packing (American Politics), concentrating one group’s voters in the fewest possible districts, so they cannot influence the outcome of races in others
- Packing (computer science), a synonym for compression.
- Packing (freediving), a technique used to increase lung capacity by gulping air to "pack" more oxygen into the lungs.
- Packing (meat), the process of cutting up a slaughtered animal into saleable products in the meat packing industry
- Packing (seal), a sealing material between a shaft and a fixed ole through which it passes
- Packing (transman), the practice of wearing padding to give the appearance of male genitals inside clothing
- Packing, an abbreviation for backpacking
In mathematics:
- Sphere packing, a classic treatment;
- Packing problem, a recreational mathematics approach