Box (disambiguation)

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Box may also refer to:

[edit] Boxes

  • Box, a receptacle, often rectangular or cuboidal
  • Ballot box, a box in which votes (ballot papers) are deposited during voting
  • Black box, something for which the internal operation is not described but its function is
  • Black box (transportation), a durable data-recording device found in some vehicles, used to assist in the investigation of an accident
  • Decorative boxes, boxes made to look artistic or ornamental
  • Lunch box, or "lunch pail" or "lunch kit", a rigid container used for carrying food
  • Mitre box, a woodworking tool used to guide a hand saw to make precise mitre cuts in a board
  • Set-top box, a device used to decode and display TV signals
  • Nest box, a substitute for a hole in a tree for birds to make a nest in.
  • Post office box, (often abbreviated P.O. box or PO box), a uniquely-addressable lockable box located in a post office station.
  • toolbox, (or tool box), a box for tools
  • Pandora's box, in Greek mythology, a box containing the evils of mankind, and also hope
  • Dispatch box, (or despatch box), a box for holding official papers and transporting them
  • Box, informal reference to large box-shaped parts of a computer, such as the base unit or tower case of a personal computer.
  • Torsion box, consists of two skins applied to a core material, light in weight, functions as a beam

[edit] Shelters or booths

  • Police box, a booth for police use
  • Signal box, a building by a railway to coordinate and control railway signals
  • Telephone box, or telephone booth, a booth containing a public telephone

[edit] Other

  • Boxing, a sport (the related verb is to box)
  • Box (character), a character from the film Logan's Run
  • Box (comics), a fictional superhero in Marvel Comics
  • Box (theatre), a small, separated area in the auditorium for a limited number of people
  • Box (tree), a tree or shrub of the genus Buxus
  • Box (tree), a type of Eucalyptus tree
  • Box, Wiltshire, a village in England
  • "Box" or "Box 500", referring to the British Security Service (MI5)
  • Box, slang for a vagina
  • Cricket box, an abdominal protector or cup worn by a batsman in cricket (see Cricket clothing and equipment)
  • Cuboid, a geometrical figure
  • Category:Phreaking boxes, devices used by phone phreaks to perform various functions normally reserved for operators and other telephone company employees
  • Vermilion box, a hypothetical portable improvised line emulator
  • Box, a punishment, to "box someone's ears," in which someone claps their hands on both sides of a person's head to inflict pain.
  • Gold box, the name for a series of computer role-playing games

[edit] People

[edit] Mathematics

The □ ("box") operator in mathematics is used for:

[edit] See also

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