Container

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Container may refer to:

• An item used to contain, store, and transport products (for the early history of these items, see pottery), practical examples including
  • Jar, traditionally cylindrical and made of glass
  • Bottle, similar to a jar in being traditionally symmetrical about the axis perpendicular to its base and made of glass
  • Can or canister, traditionally cylindrical and sheet-metallic
  • Box, rectilinear
• Shipping container, including
  • Crate, a box or rectilinear exoskeleton, designed for hoisting or loading
  • Wooden box
  • Corrugated box, made of corrugated fiberboard
  • Intermodal container, a.k.a. ship container or cargo container
    • Twenty-foot equivalent unit, an industry standard intermodal container size
  • Intermediate bulk container
  • Unit load device, similar to a crate
  • Drum, similar to a can but definitely cylindrical and not necessarily metallic
  • Flexible intermediate bulk container
• Food storage container
• Skydiving container, which stores the parachute on a skydiving rig

Computing

• Digital container format, a special class of computer file used for audio/video data
• Container (abstract data type), in computer programming
• Container (type theory), an abstract way of representing data structures using dependent types
• Operating system-level virtualization, a server virtualization method often called containers
• Web container, implements the web component contract of the J2EE architecture

Entertainment

• Container (film), a 2006 film by Lukas Moodysson
• Container (board game), a board game published in 2007

See also

• All pages beginning with "Container"
• All pages with titles containing "Container"
• Cartridge (disambiguation)
• Contain (disambiguation)
• Receptacle (disambiguation)
• Receiver (disambiguation)

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