BUNDLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bundling mean? 

• BUNDLING (noun)
  The noun BUNDLING has 3 senses:

1. a onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing

2. the act of binding something into a bundle

3. the act of shoving hastily

  Familiarity information: BUNDLING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUNDLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bundling" is a kind of...):

courting; courtship; suit; wooing (a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of binding something into a bundle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("bundling" is a kind of...):

boxing; packing (the enclosure of something in a package or box)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of shoving hastily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

she complained about bundling the children off to school

Hypernyms ("bundling" is a kind of...):

shove (the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something))

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes neural cell adhesion molecule L1 protein, is involved in neuron-neuron cell adhesion, axon guidance and bundling of neurons.

(L1CAM wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)