unpacking
verb
Definitions
To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.
Example: They didn't have time to unpack their bags before going out to dinner.
To empty containers that had been packed.
Example: They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner.
To analyze a concept or a text.
(of a segment such as a vowel) To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.
noun
Definitions
The act by which something is unpacked.
The separation of the features of a segment (such as a nasal vowel or palatal consonant) into distinct segments; for example, the separation of a nasal vowel such as /ɑ̃/ into a vowel /ɑ/ and a nasal consonant /n/ (i.e., into /ɑn/) which often occurs when a language which does not use nasal vowels borrows from a language which does use them.