covering

The placement of objects so that they touch in some specified manner, often inside a container with specified properties. For example, one could consider a sphere packing, ellipsoid packing, polyhedron packing, etc.

Barlow packing | box-packing theorem | circle packing | ellipsoid packing | Groemer packing | hypersphere packing | Kelvin's conjecture | Kepler problem | kissing number | packing density | polyhedron packing | space-filling polyhedron | sphere packing | spherical covering | spherical design | triangle packing