container

Meanings

Plural: containers

Noun

• any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)
• Someone who contains; something that contains.
• An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
• A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.
• Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
• A file format that can hold various types of data.
• An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
• Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.
• A web container.
• A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself.
• A type of cryptic device where one word is inserted into another.

Synonyms

cargo container, container, container format, receptacle, shipping container, software container

Related Words

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