Packing
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Packing may refer to:
- Backpacking
- Meat packing industry, the process of cutting up a slaughtered animal into saleable products.
- 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
- data compression, as in bit-packing in computers
In mathematics:
- Sphere packing, a 3-dimensional mathematical problem
- Packing problem, a recreational mathematics approach
- Set packing, a classic computing problem.
Packing may also refer to:
- Moving company, a business that puts goods into boxes to protect them and to make them easier to carry while in transit
- Tourism
- Concealed carry in the United States the practice of carrying a weapon for self protection
- Packing gland, also known as a Stuffing box, a mechanical term for a sealing material between a shaft and a fixed hole through which it passes
- An autism therapy involving wrapping children in cold wet sheets.