"slack fill" meaning in English

See slack fill in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: slack fills [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} slack fill (countable and uncountable, plural slack fills)
  1. (manufacturing) The inadequate filling of a package so that it contains too little of the product. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Manufacturing
    Sense id: en-slack_fill-en-noun-8QN2-rJe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: business, manufacturing

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for slack fill meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "slack fills",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "slack fill (countable and uncountable, plural slack fills)",
      "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"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Manufacturing",
          "orig": "en:Manufacturing",
          "parents": [
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, Processed Prepared Food, volume 152, page 41",
          "text": "[…] consumers don't understand chemical terms, and consumers really don't have a problem with slack fills, information and label type size.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The inadequate filling of a package so that it contains too little of the product."
      ],
      "id": "en-slack_fill-en-noun-8QN2-rJe",
      "links": [
        [
          "manufacturing",
          "manufacturing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "inadequate",
          "inadequate"
        ],
        [
          "package",
          "package"
        ],
        [
          "product",
          "product"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(manufacturing) The inadequate filling of a package so that it contains too little of the product."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "manufacturing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "slack fill"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "slack fills",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "slack fill (countable and uncountable, plural slack fills)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Manufacturing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, Processed Prepared Food, volume 152, page 41",
          "text": "[…] consumers don't understand chemical terms, and consumers really don't have a problem with slack fills, information and label type size.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The inadequate filling of a package so that it contains too little of the product."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "manufacturing",
          "manufacturing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "inadequate",
          "inadequate"
        ],
        [
          "package",
          "package"
        ],
        [
          "product",
          "product"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(manufacturing) The inadequate filling of a package so that it contains too little of the product."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "manufacturing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "slack fill"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). 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.