Definition of "packing" []

• The act or process of one that packs. (noun)
• The processing and packaging of manufactured products, especially food products. (noun)
• A material used to prevent leakage or seepage, as around a pipe joint. (noun)
• The insertion of gauze or other material into a body cavity or wound for therapeutic purposes. (noun)
• The material so used; a pack. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Another important point in packing is to keep food from becoming soggy in the box."
• "The phrase packing the Court—always pejorative, imputing one-sidedness—burst on the scene in 1936 in criticism of President Franklin Roosevelt’s plan to appoint a new Supreme Court justice every time one of the “nine old men” a phrase coined by the columnists Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen reached the age of seventy and refused to step down."
• "The couple said they are going to begin packing their belongings."