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- noun The ordered arrangement of objects such as to create the greatest density (e.g. of atoms in a crystal)
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Examples
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So, I thought that this is the way that they preserve active ribosomes, by the close-packing.
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The camel-guns shelled them as they passed and opened for an instant lanes through their midst, most like those quick-closing vistas in a Kentish hop-garden seen when the train races by at full speed; and the infantry fire, held till the opportune moment, dropped them in close-packing hundreds.
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Perhaps this very haste and close-packing of the matter, which keeps the mind from dwelling overmuch on detail, relieves its real extravagance, and those who read it carefully will think that the pathos of Euripides has been equal to the occasion.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866
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