Box (disambiguation)

• Box (surname)

• Box, in molecular biology, a repeating sequence of nucleotides that forms a transcription or a regulatory signal
• Box, plants of the genus Buxus, notably:
  • Buxus sempervirens (common or European box)
• Plants of the genus Eucalyptus, such as:
  • Eucalyptus albens (E. albens; white box)
  • Eucalyptus angophoroides (E. angophoroides; apple-topped box)
  • Eucalyptus bridgesiana (E. bridgesiana; apple box)
  • Eucalyptus melliodora (E. melliodora; yellow box)
  • Eucalyptus quadrangulata (E. quadrangulata; white-topped box)
• Plants of the genus Sarcococca (sweet box)

• Box (company), an online file sharing and cloud content management service for businesses
• Boston Options Exchange, or BOX

• Box, holds values, in the programming dialects Lisp and Scheme
• "<>", 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

• 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"

• Box (juggling), a juggling pattern for three objects
• Box, in American football, an area of the field
• Box, an abdominal protector or cup worn by a batsman in cricket; see Cricket clothing and equipment
• Box, to compete in boxing, the sport of fighting with the fists
• Luxury box or sky box, a private suite in a sports arena
  • Crawford Boxes, a seating section at Minute Maid Park in Houston
• Penalty box, a place where sports players assigned penalties sit

In electrical terminology, a "box" is used to contain and protect connections, thus:

• Pattress, a box used to hold electrical switches and receptacles
• Junction box, a fixed container for joining electrical connections, frequently installed in walls and containing electrical outlets.
• Fuse box, holds electrical fuses or circuit breakers

• Post box or mailbox, a physical box used to collect mail that is to be sent to a destination:
  • Lamp box
  • Ludlow wall box
  • Pillar box
  • Wall box

Boxes, where postal workers deposit incoming mail for the recipient:

• Letter box or mailbox, positioned near or on the mail recipient's home or place of work
• Post office box (often abbreviated P.O. box or PO box), rented by the mail recipient to be an independent postal address

• Box (torture), a method of solitary confinement
• Box, a subtype of the Hi-Riser automobile
• Boombox, a portable stereo music system
• Coach box or box seat, a seat for the driver of a carriage
• Combat box, a World War II bomber formation
• Phreaking box, a device used to manipulate telephone systems; different types are named after colors, for example, the blue box
• Torsion box, a beam constructed of two skins applied to a core material
• BOXES, the algorithm used by the Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine

• Call box
• Penalty box, a booth used in many ball-team sports where a player sits to serve the time of a given penalty.
• Police box, a booth for use by police in 20th century Britain.
• Signal box, a building by a railway to coordinate and control railway signals.
• Telephone box, a booth containing a public telephone.

• Bandbox, seating for a musical band during a performance
• Box seat, semi-private seating at an arena or theatre
• Box (theatre) or box seat, a small, separated area in the auditorium for a limited number of people
• Jury box, courtroom seating for a trial jury

• 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
• Box, informal reference to large box-shaped parts of a computer, such as the base unit or tower case of a personal computer
• Box set, a compilation of items, such as books or music
• Check box, on paper, normally to check off as opinion or option
• Coach Box or the driver's seat on a carriage coach
• Dispatch box, (or despatch box), a box for holding official papers and transporting them
• Event data recorder, commonly called a "black box", a durable data-recording device found in some vehicles, used to assist in the investigation of an accident
• First aid box, a collection of supplies and equipment for use in giving first aid to someone
• Glory box or hope chest, a box or chest containing items typically stored by unmarried young women in anticipation of married life
• Glove box, a sealed container with gloves to manipulate objects
• Jack-in-the-box, a children's toy containing a surprise
• Kōbako, a decorative storage box
• Lunch box, or "lunch pail" or "lunch kit", a rigid container used for carrying food. Can also be decorative
• Mitre box, a woodworking tool used to guide a hand saw to make precise miter cuts in a board
• Nest box, a substitute for a hole in a tree for birds to make a nest in
• Pandora's box, in Greek mythology, a jar containing the evils of mankind and also hope, mistranslated as 'box' since the 16th century
• Pill organizer or Pillbox, a special container for storing scheduled doses of one'[[medications
• Set-top box, a device used to decode and display TV signals
• Singing bird box, an objet d'art which contains within a miniature automaton singing bird
• Soapbox, an actual or symbolic box on which an orator stands to make a persuasive speech
• Squeezebox, a musical instrument
• Zig Zag Girl box, a box used for the Zig Zag Girl magic trick
• Box, vulgar slang for vagina
• Box, slang for interrogation room or solitary confinement
• Box-room, a small room in a house
• MI5, the British Security Service, sometimes called "Box 500" or "Box"

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• Black box (disambiguation)
• Boxer (disambiguation)
• Boxing (disambiguation)
• Boxy (disambiguation)
• Strongbox (disambiguation)
• The Box (disambiguation)