Container

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Container may refer to:

• Packaging used to contain, store, and transport products, such as cartons, bottles, cans, etc.
  • See Category:Containers for a more complete list
• Shipping containers include
  • Crate
  • Wooden box
  • Intermodal container, aka Ship Container or Cargo Container
    • Twenty-foot equivalent unit, an industry standard intermodal container size
  • Intermediate bulk container
  • Corrugated box made of corrugated fiberboard
  • Unit Load Device
  • Drum (container)
  • Flexible intermediate bulk container

• food containers, such as Tupperware and Rubbermaid brands (see: Food storage container)
• a skydiving container, which stores the parachute on a skydiving rig

In entertainment:

• Container (film), a 2006 film by Lukas Moodysson
• Container (board game), a board game published in 2007

In computing:

• Container format (digital), a special class of computer file used for audio/video data
• Container (data structure), an abstract data type in computer programming
• Container (Type theory), an abstract way of representing data structures using dependent types
• Operating system-level virtualization, a server virtualization method often called containers
• Web container, implements the web component contract of the J2EE architecture

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