Packing vs Stacking - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between packing and stacking

is that packing is present participle of lang=en while stacking is present participle of lang=en.

is that packing is the action of the verb while stacking is the act by which something is stacked.

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* send someone packing

(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

* packing case

The act by which something is stacked.

the number of possible stackings of eight boxes

(uncountable) Sport stacking.

(chemistry, countable) A stacked arrangement of often aromatic molecules, adopted due to interatomic interactions.

Making claims for a single incident on multiple insurance policies.

(photography) An image processing technique to reduce noise or add special effects.

(television) A technique for keeping a captive audience by grouping together programs with similar appeal.

* antistacking

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