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'''Necking''' can refer to:
* [[Making out]], a term for heavy kissing of the neck or petting of that area
* [[Necking (engineering)]], the process by which a ductile material deforms under tension forming a thin ''neck''
* [[Necking (electronics)]], thinning of traces in PCB layouts
* Necking, a [[Giraffe#Necking|behavior of giraffes]]
* Necking up or necking down, methods of modifying a firearm cartridge to make a [[wildcat cartridge]] or a new production cartridge (e.g. the US .60 caliber [[MG_151_cannon#US_derivative|T17]] round being shortened and necked up to create the 20×102 mm [[M61 Vulcan]] cannon cartridge)
== See also ==
* [[Neck (disambiguation)]]
* [[Rubbernecking]]
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