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  • noun Plural form of packing.

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Examples

  • A typical store will have about 120 different cigarette packings.

    New Rules Take Effect For Tobacco Industry 2010

  • Among those, the incorporation of asbestos fibers (mainly chrysotile) into rubber matrices yields materials that were widely used for fabrication of packings and gaskets.

    Asbestos 2008

  • I can rely on that vast history of mathematicians and artists looking at disc packings and arrangements.

    Robert Lang folds way-new origami Robert Lang 2008

  • I can rely on that vast history of mathematicians and artists looking at disc packings and arrangements.

    Robert Lang folds way-new origami Robert Lang 2008

  • I can rely on that vast history of mathematicians and artists looking at disc packings and arrangements.

    Robert Lang folds way-new origami Robert Lang 2008

  • That ordered crystalline packings are generally found to be more efficient than random packings, but nobody can prove it in general?

    The Future of Theoretical Cosmology Sean 2006

  • Day 3 was another toned down day; there really isn't much to be done aside from carrying on with my packings.

    jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2005

  • But here among the Shands, with whom sons and daughters were plentiful, and with whom the feelings were of a useful kind, and likely to wear well, rather than of a romantic nature, the bustle, the purchasings, the arrangements, and the packings generally had in them a pleasantness of activity with no disagreeable accompaniments.

    John Caldigate 2004

  • Lloyd-Smith believes the diameter and depth of the postholes, their stone packings, and the well-preserved condition of the clay floor indicates that the structure had a roof, but Frands Herschend, an archaeologist at Uppsala University, thinks this is improbable.

    Unique Pentagonal Temple 2000

  • Excavation of a burial ground in Västerhaninge, 15 miles south of Stockholm, has yielded an unusual Iron Age temple composed of six postholes, up to three feet in diameter and five and one-half feet deep, lined with sturdy stone packings and laid out in a near perfect pentagon.

    Unique Pentagonal Temple 2000

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