Box (disambiguation)

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
• Box (service), an online storage and content management service
• 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

• Boxes (film), a 2007 French film
• 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
• 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
• 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

• All pages with titles containing Box
• The Box (disambiguation)
• Boxer (disambiguation)
• Boxing (disambiguation)
• Boxy (disambiguation)
• Black box (disambiguation)
• Strongbox (disambiguation)