Packing may refer to:
Law and politics
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Jury packing
Jury selection is the selection of the people who will serve on a jury during a jury trial. The group of potential jurors (the "jury pool", also known as the ''venire'') is first selected from among the community using a reasonably random method. ...
, selecting biased jurors for a court case
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Packing and cracking
In representative democracies, gerrymandering (, originally ) is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries with the intent to create undue advantage for a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency. The m ...
, a method of creating voting districts to give a political party an advantage
Other uses
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Packing (firestopping)
Packing is the process and/or the materials used in filling both service penetrations and building joints with backer materials as approved components within a firestop.
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, the process of installing backer materials, such as mineral wool in service penetrations
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Packing (phallus)
Packing is wearing padding or a phallic object in the front of the pants or underwear to give the appearance of having a penis or bulge. Packing is commonly practiced by trans men. People who cross-dress as male may also "pack".
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, the practice of wearing a phallic object inside the clothing to give the appearance of male genitals
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autism therapy, wrapping children in cold wet sheets
* Packing, also known as an O-ring or other type of
mechanical seal
A mechanical seal is a device that helps join systems and mechanisms together by preventing leakage (e.g. in a pumping system), containing pressure, or excluding contamination. The effectiveness of a seal is dependent on adhesion in the case of s ...
, a term for a sealing material
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Packing problems
Packing problems are a class of optimization problems in mathematics that involve attempting to pack objects together into containers. The goal is to either pack a single container as densely as possible or pack all objects using as few cont ...
, a family of optimization problems in mathematics
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Pack (disambiguation)
Pack or packs may refer to:
Places
* Pack, Austria, a municipality in Styria, Austria
* Pack, Missouri
* Chefornak Airport, Alaska, by ICAO airport code
Groups of animals or people
* Pack (canine), family structure of wild animals of the b ...
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Packer (disambiguation)
Packer or Packers may refer to:
People
* Packer (Middlesex cricketer) (c. 1765 – after 1795)
* Alferd Packer (1842–1907), American prospector and confessed cannibal
* Andrew Packer (born 1980), Australian footballer
* Ann Packer (born ...
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Unpacking (disambiguation)
Unpacking may refer to:
* Unpacking (linguistics), the separation of the features of a segment into distinct segments
* ''Unpacking'' (video game), a 2021 puzzle game
* Unpacking (computer science), unpacking programming variables
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