• Items used to contain, store, and transport products, such as:
  • Carton
    Carton
    Carton is the name of certain types of containers typically made from paperboard which is also sometimes known as cardboard. Many types of cartons are used in packaging. Sometimes a carton is also called a box.-Folding cartons:...
    
    
  • Bottle
    Bottle
    A bottle is a rigid container with a neck that is narrower than the body and a "mouth". By contrast, a jar has a relatively large mouth or opening. Bottles are often made of glass, clay, plastic, aluminum or other impervious materials, and typically used to store liquids such as water, milk, soft...
    
    
  • Can (disambiguation), several meanings
• Shipping container
  Shipping container
  A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling. Shipping containers range from large reusable steel boxes used for intermodal shipments to the ubiquitous corrugated boxes...
  
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  • Crate
    Crate
    A crate is a large shipping container, often made of wood, typically used to transport large, heavy or awkward items. A crate has a self-supporting structure, with or without sheathing. For a wooden container to be a crate, all six of its sides must be put in place to result in the rated strength...
    
    
  • Wooden box
    Wooden box
    A wooden box is a container made of wood for storage or as a shipping container.Construction may include several types of wood; lumber , plywood, engineered woods, etc...
    
    
  • Intermodal container
    Intermodal container
    An intermodal container is a standardized reusable steel box used for the safe, efficient and secure storage and movement of materials and products within a global containerized intermodal freight transport system...
    
    , aka Ship container or Cargo container
    • Twenty-foot equivalent unit
      Twenty-foot equivalent unit
      The twenty-foot equivalent unit is an inexact unit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of container ships and container terminals...
      
      , an industry standard intermodal container size
  • Intermediate bulk container
    Intermediate bulk container
    An Intermediate bulk container is a container used for transport and storage of fluids and bulk materials. The construction of the IBC container and the materials used are chosen depending on the application, i.e...
    
    
  • Corrugated box
    Box
    Box describes a variety of containers and receptacles for permanent use as storage, or for temporary use often for transporting contents. The word derives from the Greek πύξος , "box, boxwood"....
    
     made of corrugated fiberboard
  • Unit Load Device
    Unit Load Device
    A unit load device , is a pallet or container used to load luggage, freight, and mail on wide-body aircraft and specific narrow-body aircraft. It allows a large quantity of cargo to be bundled into a single unit. Since this leads to fewer units to load, it saves ground crews time and effort and...
    
    
  • Drum (container)
    Drum (container)
    A drum is a cylindrical container used for shipping bulk cargo. Drums can be made of steel, dense paperboard , or plastics, and are generally used for the transportation and storage of liquids and powders. Drums are often certified for shipment of dangerous goods...
    
    
  • Flexible intermediate bulk container
    Flexible intermediate bulk container
    A Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container, FIBC , big bag, bulk bag, or Super Sack® is a standardized container in large dimensions for storing and transporting dry, flowable products, for example sand, fertilizers , and granules of plastics.FIBCs are most often made of thick woven polyethylene or...
    
    
• Food storage container
  Food storage container
  Food storage containers are widespread in use throughout the world and have probably been in use since the first human civilisations.-Early civilizations:...
  
  
• A skydiving container, which stores the parachute on a skydiving rig

Entertainment

• Container (film)
  Container (film)
  Container is a Swedish film by Lukas Moodysson. It was first shown at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 10, 2006.The movie is in black and white and was described by Moodysson as "a silent movie with sound"; an appropriate description as the only sound of the film is a spoken...
  
  , a 2006 film by Lukas Moodysson
• Container (board game)
  Container (board game)
  Container is an economic simulation board game for three to five players. The game is themed around the shipping industry, and the primary pieces in the game are shipping containers, hence the name of the game. The players in container produce, buy, sell, ship and store containers with the...
  
  , a board game published in 2007

Computing

• Container format (digital), a special class of computer file used for audio/video data
• Container (data structure)
  Container (data structure)
  In computer science, a container is a class, a data structure, or an abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects. In other words; they are used for storing objects in an organized way following specific access rules...
  
  , an abstract data type in computer programming
• Container (Type theory)
  Container (Type theory)
  In type theory, containers are abstractions which permit various "collection types", such as lists and trees, to be represented in a uniform way. A container is defined by a type of shapes S and a type family of positions P, indexed by S...
  
  , an abstract way of representing data structures using dependent types
• Operating system-level virtualization
  Operating system-level virtualization
  Operating system-level virtualization is a server virtualization method where the kernel of an operating system allows for multiple isolated user-space instances, instead of just one. Such instances may look and feel like a real server, from the point of view of its owner...
  
  , a server virtualization method often called containers
• Web container
  Web container
  Web container is the component of a web server that interacts with the servlets. A web container is responsible for managing the lifecycle of servlets, mapping a URL to a particular servlet and ensuring that the URL requester has the correct access rights...
  
  , implements the web component contract of the J2EE architecture