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

Noun

The action of the verb to process .

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}

The act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures.