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packing

/ˈpakɪŋ/ UK
/ˈpækɪŋ/ US

Rhymes with -ækɪŋ

Where it comes from

From Middle English pakkynge; equivalent to pack (“verb and noun senses”) + -ing.

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of pack

noun packings

countable, uncountable The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
countable, uncountable The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
countable, uncountable The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
countable, uncountable The forming of players into a scrum.
countable, uncountable Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight. A kind of fine Norwegian hay, used as packing in the finnesko to keep the feet warm and to make the fur boot fit firmly.
countable, uncountable Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging. Among the inner packings in use are expanded polystyrene (popcorn), plastic-encapsulated air (air bubbles), various types of paper products, foam-in-place, molded polystyrene, and corrugated partitions (egg crating).
countable, uncountable A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
countable, uncountable Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications. Packing in a packed bed, or a column such as a distillation column or a chromatography column
abbreviation, clipping, countable, uncountable Clipping of meatpacking

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: backpacking, wadding, boxing, packing material, package, packaged, packet, packaging, luggage, baggage, folding, bagging, wrapping, carton, wrapper, wrap

Translations

Every language

noun the action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey

Español	empaque, empacamiento

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@misc{packing_2026,
  title = {packing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/packing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}