Unpacking
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:18 ptsWWF:24 pts9 letters
Definition of Unpacking
verb
- To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.
"They didn't have time to unpack their bags before going out to dinner."
- To empty containers that had been packed.
"They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner."
- To analyze a concept or a text.
- (of a segment such as a vowel) To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.
- To decompress.
noun
- The act by which something is unpacked.
- The separation of the features of a segment (such as a nasal vowel or palatal consonant) into distinct segments; for example, the separation of a nasal vowel such as /ɑ̃/ into a vowel /ɑ/ and a nasal consonant /n/ (i.e., into /ɑn/) which often occurs when a language which does not use nasal vowels borrows from a language which does use them.
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