Package

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Package can refer to:

  • Packaging and labeling
  • Package testing
  • Mail item larger than a letter
  • Chip package or chip carrier, in electronics, the material added around a component or integrated circuit to allow it to be handled without damage and incorporated into a circuit
  • Automotive package, in automobile production and marketing, a group of related features sold as a bundle
  • Package holiday, in tourism, a holiday or package tour which consists of transport and accommodation advertised and sold together by a vendor
  • Term often used for burying a dead body (often illegally)

In computing:

  • A package or module, a software component for accomplishing a particular thing
  • Package (package management system), a file used by a package management system to install an application or library
  • Package (Mac OS X), a directory hierarchy normally treated as a single object in the Finder in Mac OS X
  • Package (UML) in the context of UML, which is used to groups elements

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