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Packing vs Pacing - What's the difference?

packing | pacing |

As verbs the difference between packing and pacing

is that packing is while pacing is .

As nouns the difference between packing and pacing

is that packing is the action of the verb while pacing is the act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.

packing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * send someone packing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb.
  • # The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
  • # (sciences, mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
  • # The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
  • # (rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
  • As a concrete noun.
  • # Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
  • # Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
  • # A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
  • # Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
    • ::::*Examples: Packing in a packed bed, or a column such as a distillation column or a chromatography column

    Derived terms

    * packing case

    pacing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • We have repeatedly referred to the usefulness of steps, lines, ticks, clocks, routines, pacings , etc. - scales, measures, series, patterns, disposed in a fixed and regular and conventional space-time.

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