A box is a container or package, usually with parallel, flat, rectangular sides.

Box or boxes may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • Box (comics), a Marvel comics superhero
  • Box, a robot in the 1976 film Logan's Run

Film

  • Box (film), a 2015 Romanian film
  • BOX: The Hakamada Case, a 2010 documentary about boxer Iwao Hakamada
  • Boxes (film), a 2007 French film

Music

Albums

  • Box (Chocolate Starfish album), 1995
  • Box, a 1995 album by Dive
  • Box (Gas album), 2016
  • Boxes (Goo Goo Dolls album), 2016, and the title track
  • Box (Guided by Voices album), 1995
  • Box, a 1996 album by Christie Hennessy
  • Box, a 2006 album by Mellowdrone
  • Box (Sam Brown album), 1997
  • B.O.X: Best of X, a 1996 album by X Japan
  • Boxes (Sydney Dance Company album), 1985

Songs

  • "Boxes", a 1984 song by Prodigal from Electric Eye
  • "Boxes", a 2007 song by Charlie Winston from Make Way
  • "Boxes", a 2020 song by Moses Sumney from Græ

Places

  • Box, Gloucestershire, England
  • Box, Wiltshire, England
  • Box Tunnel, a railway tunnel
  • River Box, Suffolk, England
  • Box, Oklahoma, United States
  • Box Hill (disambiguation)

People

  • Box (surname), including a list of people with the name
  • Edgar Box, a pen name used by writer Gore Vidal
  • "Box", nickname of Henry Box Brown (c. 1815–1897), an African-American slave who had himself shipped to freedom in a wooden crate

Science and technology

  • Box, common name of the plant genus Buxus
  • Box, common name of some species of Eucalyptus trees
  • GNOME Boxes, a virtualization application for the GNOME desktop environment
  • □ ("box") operator in mathematics, used for:
  • Logical necessity in modal logic
  • Conway box function
  • D'Alembert operator
  • Rectangular cuboid, a geometric figure
  • Hyperrectangle, in geometry
  • BOx (psychedelics), a group of psychedelics and other psychoactive drugs
  • BOXES algorithm, used by the Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine
  • Buried oxide layer, in semiconductor fabrication

Sport

  • Box (juggling), a juggling pattern for three objects
  • Box, an American football term
  • Box, an abdominal guard in cricket clothing and equipment
  • Box, to participate in boxing, a combat sport
  • IOC sport code for boxing at the Summer Olympics
  • Penalty box, or simply box, a place where sports players assigned penalties sit

Other uses

  • Box (company), a file sharing and cloud content management company
  • Box (theatre), a small, separated area
  • Box (torture), a method of solitary confinement
  • Combat box, flying formation used by bombers during World War II
  • Box, a type of Hi-Riser automobile
  • MI5, the British Security Service, called "Box 500" or "Box"
  • Boston Options Exchange, or BOX
  • Borroloola Airport, IATA airport code "BOX"
  • Box, Design & Build, a New Zealand design and construction company
  • Safe deposit box, an individually secured container, usually held within a larger safe or bank vault

See also

  • The Box (disambiguation)
  • Black box (disambiguation)