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• Box Springs Mountain — towers over eastern Riverside, California, and western Moreno Valley, California, roughly forming the border between the two Inland Empire cities.Peaking at 3,047 feet, this craggy brown mountain is among the most prominent features of the… …   Wikipedia

• box office — also box office ➔ office * * * box office UK US noun COMMERCE ► [C] the place in a theatre or cinema where you buy tickets: »Tickets are $8 and are available only at the box office. ► [U] money from ticket sales …   Financial and business terms

• Box chronometer — Chronometer Chro*nom e*ter, n. [Gr. ? time + meter: cf. F. chronom[ e]tre.] 1. An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper. [1913 Webster] 2. A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; intended… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Box sextant — Sextant Sex tant, n. [L. sextans, antis, the sixth part of an as, fr. sextus sixth, sex six. See {Six}.] 1. (Math.) The sixth part of a circle. [1913 Webster] 2. An instrument for measuring angular distances between objects, used esp. at sea, for …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Mitre box — A mitre box (US spelling, miter box ) is a woodworking tool used to guide a hand saw to make precise mitre cuts in a board. A home made manual miter sawing box. The most common form of a mitre box is a 3 sided box which is open at the top and the …   Wikipedia

• Spring box — Spring Spring, n. [AS. spring a fountain, a leap. See {Spring}, v. i.] 1. A leap; a bound; a jump. [1913 Webster] The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke. Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Particle in a box — In physics, the particle in a box (also known as the infinite potential well or the infinite square well) is a problem consisting of a single particle inside of an infinitely deep potential well, from which it cannot escape, and which loses no… …   Wikipedia

• Blue box (phreaking) — An early phreaking tool, the blue box is an electronic device that simulates a telephone operator s dialing console. It functions by replicating the tones used to switch long distance calls and using them to route the user s own call, bypassing… …   Wikipedia

• Cox box — A cox box is an electronic device used in competitive rowing that combines a digital stroke rate monitor and elapsed time readout with a voice amplifier. Although the term cox box is commonly used as a generic descriptor of this type of device,… …   Wikipedia

• Jensen Box — The Jensen Box was developed by UC Berkeley psychologist Arthur Jensen as a standard apparatus for measuring choice reaction time, especially in relationship to differences in intelligence [A. R. Jensen. (1987). Individual differences in the Hick …   Wikipedia

• Stage box — Stage Stage (st[=a]j), n. [OF. estage, F. [ e]tage, (assumed) LL. staticum, from L. stare to stand. See {Stand}, and cf. {Static}.] 1. A floor or story of a house. [Obs.] Wyclif. [1913 Webster] 2. An elevated platform on which an orator may speak …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English