Box (disambiguation)
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A box is a container or package, often rectangular or cuboid.
Box or boxes may also refer to:
People
- Box (surname)
- Henry "Box" Brown (c.1815 – after 1889), American slave who had himself mailed in a box to freedom
Companies
- Box (company), an online file sharing and Cloud content management service for businesses
Places in England
- Box, Gloucestershire, a village
- Box, Wiltshire, a village
- Box Hill, Surrey, a beauty spot
- Box Tunnel, a railway tunnel near Bath
Plants
- Plants of the Buxus genus, notably
- Buxus sempervirens (common or European box)
- Plants of the Sarcococca genus (sweet box)
- Plants of the Eucalyptus genus
In 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"
In entertainment
- Box (comics), a fictional superhero in Marvel Comics
- Box (film), a 2015 Romanian film
- Box (theatre), a small, separated area in the auditorium for a limited number of people
- Box, a villainous robot character from the 1976 science fiction film Logan's Run
- Dots and Boxes, a pencil and paper game
- Gold Box, a series of computer role-playing games
- BOX: The Hakamada Case, a documentary about boxer Iwao Hakamada
In music
- Boxes (film), a 2007 French film
- Box (Ministry album), a compilation of B-Sides and non-album tracks by industrial metal act Ministry
- Box (Guided by Voices album), the first box set by indie rock band Guided by Voices
- Box (Dive album), collects most of Dive's 1990–1993 output
- Box (Klinik album), a compilation of rare and unreleased tracks by Klinik, was released as a 3LP or 2CD box with a 24 page booklet, containing song lyrics and photos by Sabine Voss; the 2CD was re-released in 2004 by Hands Productions
- Boxes (album), a 1985 post punk album by Icehouse
- Box, the first full length 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
- "Dick in a Box", a 2006 song featured in a Saturday Night Live Digital Short
Other uses
As a single word:
- Box (American football), an area of the field in American football
- Box (juggling) a juggling pattern for three objects
- Box (service), an online storage and content management service
- Box (torture), a method of solitary confinement
- Boston Options Exchange, or BOX
- Box, an abdominal protector or cup worn by a batsman in cricket; see Cricket clothing and equipment
- Box, slang for the vagina
- Box, a subtype of the Hi-Riser automobile
- Box (molecular biology), a repeating sequence of nucleotides that forms a transcription or a regulatory signal
- MI5, the British Security Service, sometimes called "Box 500" or "Box"
- "<>", the "box" syntactic element used by the Ada programming language as a placeholder for something not (yet) fully specified
As a combination of words:
- Boombox, a portable stereo music system
- Box-room, a small room in a house
- Coach box, seat for driver of a carriage
- Combat box, a World War II bomber formation
- Crawford Boxes, a seating section at Minute Maid Park in Houston
- Luxury box, also called Sky box, a private suite in a sports arena
- Phreaking boxes, devices used to manipulate telephone systems; they are named after colors, for example, the blue box
- Singing bird box, an objet d'art which contains within a miniature automaton singing bird
- Torsion box, a beam constructed of two skins applied to a core material
See also
- All pages with titles containing Box
- The Box (disambiguation)
- Boxer (disambiguation)
- Boxing (disambiguation)
- Boxy (disambiguation)
- Black box (disambiguation)
- Strongbox (disambiguation)
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