Packing - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Airlift, Allocation, Assignment, Bearing, Boxing, Bush, Bushing, Canning, Carriage, Collocation, Deployment, Deposit, Deposition, Doubling

In plain English packing means arranging in a way the takes little space. See

In the meat packing industry, it the process of cutting up a slaughtered animal into saleable products.
In computer science, packing is sometimes used as a synonym for compression. See e.g. Meridian Lossless Packing.
Packing problems in mathematics, are discussed in
- Sphere packing, a classic treatment;
- Packing problem, a recreational mathematics approach.

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