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
Box Hill, Surrey, England
Box Tunnel, a railway tunnel near Bath, England

In arts and entertainment

In music

Box (Ministry album), a compilation by industrial metal act Ministry
Box (Guided by Voices album), by indie rock band Guided by Voices
Box (Dive album), containing most of Dive's 1990–1993 output
Box (Klinik album), a compilation by Klinik
Boxes (album), a 1985 post punk album by Icehouse
Boxes (Goo Goo Dolls album), a 2016 album by Goo Goo Dolls
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
"Dick in a Box", a 2006 song featured in a Saturday Night Live Digital Short

In film

Box (film), a 2015 Romanian film
Boxes (film), a 2007 French film
BOX: The Hakamada Case, a documentary about boxer Iwao Hakamada
Box, a villainous robot character from the 1976 science fiction film Logan's Run

Other uses in arts and entertainment

Box (comics), a fictional superhero in Marvel Comics
Box (theatre), a small, separated area in the auditorium for a limited number of people
Dots and Boxes, a pencil and paper game
Gold Box, a series of computer role-playing games

In 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

In mathematics, science, and technology

In biology

Box (molecular biology), a repeating sequence of nucleotides that forms a transcription or a regulatory signal
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 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

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 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

Box, slang for vagina
MI5, the British Security Service, sometimes called "Box 500" or "Box"
Box-room, a small room in a house

See also

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