# vacuum pack
## English
### Alternative forms

* vacuum-pack

### Verb

vacuum pack (third-person singular simple present vacuum packs, present participle vacuum packing, simple past and past participle vacuum packed)
* (transitive) To pack something in an airtight container from which some or all of the air is removed, creating a partial vacuum.
** 1975, Edward M. Harwell, Herman Friedman, Sam Feig, Meat management and operations, page 158:Most suppliers charge 3 cents per pound to vacuum pack product.
** 2009, Cheryl Kimball, 55 Surefire Food-Related Businesses You Can Start for Under $5000.:Packaging can be tricky as you need to be able to vacuum pack chips.
** 2010, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania, page 320:Tofu is a very difficult product to vacuum pack, though firm tofu is easier than soft.
** 2014, The Ultimate Dehydrator Cookbook:How you store your dried herbs and flowers depends on how you intend to use them. Once dehydrated, they are very fragile. If you vacuum pack them, the leaves/flowers will be crushed.

#### Translations
### Noun

vacuum pack (plural vacuum packs)
* An airtight container in which something has been vacuum packed.
** 1999, B. A. Blakistone, Principles and Applications of Modified Atmosphere Packaging:The simplest form of MAP is to remove air from the system and hold the meat in a vacuum pack.
** 2010, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania, page 320:Yet the water that surrounds the tofu inside the vacuum pack detracts from its appearance.
** 2010, Michael T. Murray, Joseph Pizzorno, The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods, page 552:When purchased in the grocery store, frozen lobster tails packed in special vacuum packs can have an extended shelf life of twenty-four months.
* A device which becomes rigid when suction is applied to it, used to pack a wound.
** 2008, Juan A. Asensio, Donald D. Trunkey, Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care:Because of the high complication rate under these circumstances, an aggressive approach to early fascial closure in the post-traumatic open abdomen is suggested, using a combination of the vacuum pack, vacuum-assisted closure technique (KCI VAC, KCI USA, Inc, San Antonio, TX), and a biologic material, human acellular tissue, matrix (Alloderm, LifeCell Corp, Branchburg, NJ) to bridge the gap in the abdominal fascia.
** 2012, Stanley H. Rosenbaum, Lewis J. Kaplan, Management of Peri-operative Complications, page 252:The abdominal vacuum pack and commercial vacuum-assisted abdominal dresssings both allow for rapid, easy reentry into the peritoneal cavity, control and quantification of effluent, and preservation of the facia for later definitive closure.
** 2013, Timothy N. Cole, Every Day for My Daughter, page 203:Bouts of diarrhea had forced the medical team to perform a surgical procedure to remove the vacuum pack on her leg, clean the wound and reattach the pack dressing.

#### Coordinate terms

* vacuum packing
* vacuum sealer

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “vacuum pack”, in Collins English Dictionary.
* “vacuum pack”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.