packing vs shim

packing

noun
  • Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight. 

  • The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack. 

  • Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging. 

  • The forming of players into a scrum. 

  • The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey. 

  • Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications. 

  • A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging. 

  • The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts. 

shim

noun
  • A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support. 

  • A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes. 

  • A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds. 

  • A small metal device used to pick open a lock. 

  • A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite. 

  • A wedge. 

  • A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite. 

verb
  • To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery. 

  • To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field, after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose. 

  • To adjust something by using shims. 

  • To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes. 

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