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packing

[pak-ing] / ˈpæk ɪŋ /
NOUN
material used to fill space
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Customers will need to buy Macs collectively packing at least 1 terabyte of memory to run the new model.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Longtime folks like Sens. Gary Peters, Dick Durbin, and more are packing it in.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

Work on their Texas property was finally completed in November, although Biles and Owens didn’t officially move in until February, after packing up their Chicago residence following the end of the Bears’ season.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

I covered myself in bits of cardboard, packing tape and foam peanuts and overdid my makeup with several coats of mascara and thick black eyeliner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

The men had to sit awkwardly on crates and packing cases in order to dig their oars into the water at the proper angle.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

In 1773 physicist and mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange found that the arrangement along a triangular lattice is optimal—so long as you only consider ordered packings.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 6, 2023

High-dimensional sphere packings are related to the error-correcting techniques used to fix garbles in the transmission of information.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2022

In geometry, he made key discoveries in the study of symmetries, sphere packings, lattices, polyhedra and tilings, including properties of quasi-periodic tilings as developed by Roger Penrose.

From Nature ● May 22, 2020

His archives contain all sorts of investigations of possible packings and their properties, together with actual cardboard polyhedra, still ready to assemble:

From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2017

Other packings are made from the ends of belts cut out in a circular form and treated with a lubricant.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various


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