Packing

Packing may refer to:

Law and politics

• Jury packing, selecting biased jurors for a court case
• Packing and cracking, a method of creating voting districts to give a political party an advantage

Technical

• Close-packing of equal spheres, the arrangement of ions in a crystal
• Packing problems, a family of optimization problems in mathematics

Other uses

• Packing (firestopping), the process of installing backer materials, such as mineral wool in service penetrations
• Packing (phallus), the practice of wearing a phallic object inside the clothing to give the appearance of male genitals
• Packing, in autism therapy, wrapping children in cold wet sheets
• Packing, also known as an O-ring or other type of mechanical seal, a term for a sealing material

See also

• Pack (disambiguation)
• Packer (disambiguation)
• Unpacking (disambiguation)