Box (disambiguation)
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A box is a container or package, often rectangular or cuboid.
Box or boxes may also refer to:
Businesses
- Box (company), an online file sharing and Cloud content management service for businesses
- Boston Options Exchange, or BOX
People
- Box (surname)
- Henry "Box" Brown (c.1815 – after 1889), American slave who had himself mailed in a box to freedom
Places
- Box, Gloucestershire, a village in England
- Box, Wiltshire, a village in England
- River Box, Suffolk, England
- Box Hill, Surrey, England
- Box Tunnel, a railway tunnel near Bath, England
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Box (comics), a fictional superhero in Marvel Comics
- Box, a villainous robot character from the 1976 science fiction film Logan's Run
Films
- Box (film), a 2015 Romanian film
- Boxes (film), a 2007 French film
- BOX: The Hakamada Case, a documentary about boxer Iwao Hakamada
Games
- Dots and Boxes, a pencil and paper game
- Gold Box, a series of computer role-playing games
Music
- Box (Guided by Voices album), by indie rock band Guided by Voices
- Box (Dive album), containing most of Dive's 1990–1993 output
- Box (Chocolate Starfish album), a 1995 studio album by Australian group, Chocolate Starfish
- Box (Klinik album), a compilation by Klinik
- Boxes (Icehouse album), 1985
- Boxes (Goo Goo Dolls album), 2016
- Box, an album by indie band Mellowdrone
- Box, an album by singer-songwriter Christie Hennessy
- "Box #10", a song by Jim Croce from You Don't Mess Around with Jim
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Box (theatre) or box seat, a small, separated area in the auditorium for a limited number of people
Sport
- Box, an abdominal protector or cup worn by a batsman in cricket; see Cricket clothing and equipment
- Box (American football), an area of the field in American football
- Box (juggling) a juggling pattern for three objects
- Crawford Boxes, a seating section at Minute Maid Park in Houston
- Luxury box, also called Sky box, a private suite in a sports arena
- Penalty box, a place where sports players assigned penalties sit
Mathematics, science, and technology
Biology
- Box (molecular biology), a repeating sequence of nucleotides that forms a transcription or a regulatory signal
- Plants of the genus Buxus, notably:
- Buxus sempervirens (common or European box)
- Plants of the genus Sarcococca (sweet box)
- Plants of the genus Eucalyptus, such as:
- E. albens (white box)
- E. angophoroides (apple-topped box)
- E. bridgesiana (apple box)
- E. melliodora (yellow box)
- E. quadrangulata (white-topped box)
Computing
- "<>", the "box" syntactic element used by the Ada programming language as a placeholder for something not (yet) fully specified
- GNOME Boxes, a virtualization application for the GNOME desktop environment
Mathematics
- The □ ("box") operator in mathematics is used for:
- Logical necessity in modal logic
- The Conway box function
- The D'Alembert operator, the Laplace operator of Minkowski space, named for French mathematician and physicist Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- Cuboid, a geometric figure
- Hyperrectangle, a higher-dimensional generalization of "Cuboid"
Technology
- Box (torture), a method of solitary confinement
- Boombox, a portable stereo music system
- Coach box, a seat for driver of a carriage
- Combat box, a World War II bomber formation
- Phreaking boxes, devices used to manipulate telephone systems; they are named after colors, for example, the blue box
- Torsion box, a beam constructed of two skins applied to a core material
- Box, a subtype of the Hi-Riser automobile
Other uses
See also
- All pages with a title containing Box
- The Box (disambiguation)
- Boxer (disambiguation)
- Boxing (disambiguation)
- Boxy (disambiguation)
- Black box (disambiguation)
- Strongbox (disambiguation)
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