underpacking

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noun

Insufficient, or less than the usual amount of packing

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Meanings

noununderpacking (usually uncountable, plural underpackings)

plural underpackings

  1. uncountableusuallyInsufficient, or less than the usual amount of packing

    In the first case (c1), a ray hits the surface pocket before reaching the ligand: this indicates underpacking in the protein-ligand interface.

    2015 July 17, “DARC 2.0: Improved Docking and Virtual Screening at Protein Interaction Sites”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of underpack

    Before underpacking and lifting, showing depth to which No. 60056 had sunk

    1955 March, “Rerailing a Pacific near Hitchin”, in Railway Magazine, page 183, photo caption

Origin

From under- + packing.

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APA

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Chicago

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