container
/kənˈteɪ.nəɹ/ nom A2En français : récipient, contenant, conteneur, container
- 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.
Pluriel containers
Dans la bibliothèque
The shipping container is so ordinary that we hardly notice it, yet it has quietly reshaped the world economy.
In April 1956, a converted oil tanker called the Ideal X sailed from Newark, New Jersey, to Houston, Texas, carrying fifty-eight containers.
Today, the largest container ships are longer than three football fields.
The empty metal containers are collected from the offices and returned to the correct homes.
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