Meaning of presspack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various types of packaging that are sealed using a mechanical press.
2. A collection of promotional materials that is made available to members of the press.
3. A type of package for semiconductor devices, in which the chips are placed in a housing and then compressed using a mechanical press.
4. A group of journalists who are covering an event.

Examples

“The "presspack" container/dispenser from Bio-Pak needs only mild pressure at the top of the container to dispense the product.”

“[…] presspack cans, compack cans, aluminium foil two-chamber cans and the alu-presspack and alu-compack systems are compared.”

“164. Vacuum drying cabinet for evacuating and pre-drying of the presspacks of copper coated sheets or laminates, complete with accessories.”

“Figure 1.4 shows a modern thyristor encapsulated in a presspack housing and Figure 1.5 illustrates a typical interdigitated gate geometry in a high-power thyristor; the black areas indicate silicon ( Si0₂ ) and the white areas the Al metallisation.”

“For current Si IGBTs, there are two basic package types—the first is a standard attached die, wire bond package utilizing soft-solder and wire-bonds as contacts, while the second is the presspack, which employs dry-pressed contacts for both electrical and thermal paths.”

“The complex construction of a presspack IGBT results in a considerable increased demand on the precise alignment of a multitude of parts and on the allowable part tolerances compared to a semiconductor module.”

“The great majority called at the Information Division and were briefed and provided with background information and 'presspacks'.”

“The information for this paragraph was derived from Tara TV's presspack, marketing surveys and promotional material kindly supplied by Cathal O'Doherty at Tara TV, London, interviewed by author on 12 October 1998.”

“Genre categorisation can be much richer and more complex than a retrospective taxonomic exercise reliant on the film alone: contemporary audiences derived their genre expectations from a wide range of studio-based material including posters, presspacks, trailers, advertisements and press reviews, and whereas hindsight tends to give single-label genre categories to films, multiple-label categories were in use at the time of release.”

“Kamau barked at the officer in Kikuyu, instructing him to be more careful, but the presspack, seeing Vanna fall, started shouting and running towards the house.”

“We were out of the studios, slipping away from a presspack and some buzzing publicists, and heading down Festive Street to Wagtail Park.”

“Once, apparently stage winners would do a full-blown press conference in front of the full-accredited presspack in the main media centre; now there were no more than a dozen in the video room and the rest watched and asked questions via a remote link-up.”

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