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Package can refer to:

Packaging and labeling
Package testing
Package testing
Package testing or packaging testing involves the measurement of a characteristic or property involved with packaging. This includes packaging materials, packaging components, primary packages, shipping containers, and unit loads, as well as the associated processes.Testing measures the effects...
Mail item larger than a letter
Chip package or chip carrier
Chip carrier
A chip carrier, also known as a chip container or chip package, is a container for a transistor or an integrated circuit. The carrier usually provides metal leads, or "pins", which are sturdy enough to electrically and mechanically connect the fragile chip to a circuit board. This connection may be...

, 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
Automotive package
An automotive package is a set of optional automobile features that are included in a bundle that is installed at the factory ....

, in automobile production and marketing, a group of related features sold as a bundle
Package holiday
Package holiday
A package holiday or package tour consists of transport and accommodation advertised and sold together by a vendor known as a tour operator. Other services may be provided like a rental car, activities or outings during the holiday. Transport can be via charter airline to a foreign country...

, 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
Module
Module or modular may refer to the concept of modularity. It may also refer to:-Computing and engineering:* Modular design, the engineering discipline of designing complex devices using separately designed sub-components...

, a software component for accomplishing a particular thing
- Java package
  Java package
  A Java package is a mechanism for organizing Java classes into namespaces similar to the modules of Modula. Java packages can be stored in compressed files called JAR files, allowing classes to download faster as a group rather than one at a time...
  
  , a mechanism for organizing Java classes
Package (package management system), a file used by a package management system to install an application or library
Package (Mac OS X)
Package (Mac OS X)
Under Mac OS X, a package is a directory that is normally treated by the Finder as a single file, with the components of the object that the package represents being stored in files in the directory tree under that directory...

, a directory hierarchy normally treated as a single object in the Finder in Mac OS X
Package (UML)
Package (UML)
A package in the Unified Modeling Language is used "to group elements, and to provide a namespace for the grouped elements". A package may contain other packages, thus providing for a hierarchical organization of packages....

in the context of UML, which is used to groups elements

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