packing box

Questions about packing box

What does packing box mean?

packing box means "a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for packing box?

Close synonyms include stuffing box, packing case. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is packing box a common word?

packing box is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.