Unpacking vs Packing - What's the difference?
unpacking | packing |
(linguistics) The separation of the features of a segment (such as a nasal vowel or palatal consonant) into distinct segments; for example, the separation of a nasal vowel such as /??/ into a vowel /?/ and a nasal consonant /n/ (i.e., into /?n/) which often occurs when a language which does not use nasal vowels borrows from a language which does use them.
The act by which something is unpacked.
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