"close-packing" meaning in All languages combined

See close-packing on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: close-packings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} close-packing (plural close-packings)
  1. The ordered arrangement of objects such as to create the greatest density (e.g. of atoms in a crystal). Wikipedia link: Close-packing of equal spheres Related terms: close-packed
    Sense id: en-close-packing-en-noun-ZNiRg19P Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for close-packing meaning in All languages combined (0.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "close-packings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "close-packing (plural close-packings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The ordered arrangement of objects such as to create the greatest density (e.g. of atoms in a crystal)."
      ],
      "id": "en-close-packing-en-noun-ZNiRg19P",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "close-packed"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Close-packing of equal spheres"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "close-packing"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "close-packings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "close-packing (plural close-packings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "close-packed"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The ordered arrangement of objects such as to create the greatest density (e.g. of atoms in a crystal)."
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Close-packing of equal spheres"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "close-packing"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.