Box (disambiguation)

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

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
River Box, Suffolk, England

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Box (comics), a fictional superhero in Marvel Comics
Box, a villainous robot character from the 1976 science fiction film Logan's Run

Films

Box (film), a 2015 Romanian film
BOX: The Hakamada Case, a documentary about boxer Iwao Hakamada
Boxes (film), a 2007 French film

Games

Dots and Boxes, a pencil and paper game
Gold Box, a series of computer role-playing games

Music

Box (Chocolate Starfish album), a 1995 studio album by Australian group, Chocolate Starfish
Box (Dive album), containing most of Dive's 1990–1993 output
Boxes (Goo Goo Dolls album), 2016
Box (Guided by Voices album), by indie rock band Guided by Voices
Boxes (Icehouse album), 1985
Box (Klinik album), a compilation by Klinik
Box, an album by the singer-songwriter Christie Hennessy
Box, an album by the indie band Mellowdrone
"Box #10", a song by Jim Croce from You Don't Mess Around with Jim
"Boxes", a 2007 song by Charlie Winston from Make Way
"Boxes", a 2016 song by the Goo Goo Dolls from Boxes
"Boxes", a 2020 song by Moses Sumney from Græ

Biology

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)

Businesses

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

Computing

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

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"

Sport

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
Crawford Boxes, a seating section at Minute Maid Park in Houston
Luxury box, also called sky box, a private suite in a sports arena
Penalty box, a place where sports players assigned penalties sit

Technology

Box (torture), a method of solitary confinement
Box, a subtype of the Hi-Riser automobile
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

Other uses

Box (theatre) or box seat, a small, separated area in the auditorium for a limited number of people
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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