Packing

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Packing normally refers to the process of Packaging and labeling

It can also 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 problem, 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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