Standard-sized rectangular box used to transport freight by ship, rail and highway International shipping containers are 20 or 40 feet long, conform to International Standards Organization (ISO) standards and are designed to fit in ships' holds Containers are transported on public roads atop a container chassis towed by a tractor Domestic containers, up to 53 feet long and of lighter construction, are designed for rail and highway use only
A container is a very large metal or wooden box used for transporting goods so that they can be loaded easily onto ships and lorries
The element of the parachute that houses the canopies Technically, the Harness/Container but usually just referred to as the container
{i} receptacle, anything that can contain another substance; mobile compartment in which cargo or furniture is placed to move conveniently
Metal box structure of standard design, used to carry cargo in units Containers can be 20 or 40 foot in length The standard measure of a container is a TEU (20-foot equivalent unit) Container ships are specially designed to carry containers in slots (or cells) Containers are stacked and restrained (lashed) at all four corners by vertical posts Some shipping lines now charter container slots on vessels operated by different companies
This term is Objectivity-specific A container is a logical grouping of persistent objects Persistent objects within a container are physically clustered together in memory and on disk A container is also a unit of locking: when one object is locked, the whole container is locked
An item of equipment as defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for transport purposes It must be of: a)a permanent character and accordingly strong enough to be suitable for repeated use b)specially designed to facilitate the carriage of goods, by one or more modes of transport without intermediate reloading c)fitted with devices permitting its ready handling, particularly from one mode of transport to another d)so designed as to be easy to fill and empty e)having an internal volume of 1 m3 or more The term container includes neither vehicles nor conventional packing Synonym: Freight Container
A large standard size metal box into which cargo is packed for shipment aboard specially configured oceangoing containerships and designed to be moved with common handling equipment enabling high-speed intermodal transfers in economically large units between ships, railcars, truck chassis, and barges using a minimum of labor The container, therefore, serves as the transfer unit rather than the cargo contained therein
an object that stores other objects, controlling their allocation, deallocation, and access Similar to C++ containers, the most important POOMA containers are Arrays and Fields See Also: Array, DynamicArray, Field, Tensor, TinyMatrix, Vector
An entity that provides life cycle management, security, deployment, and runtime services to components Each type of container (EJB, web, JSP, servlet, applet, and application client) also provides component-specific services
The part of a Rig which contains the Main and Reserve Parachutes Skydive Birmingham's containers are modern, well made, and provide the highest level of safety available
A uniform, sealed, reusable metal box in which merchandise is shipped by vessel, truck or rail Standard lengths include 10, 20, 30 and 40 feet (40 foot lengths are generally able to hold about 40,000 pounds) Containers of 45 and 48 feet are also used, as well as containers for shipment by air
Receptacle that resembles a truck trailer that is lifted onto flatcars without the chassis Most containers are 20, 45, 48 or 53 feet in length Glossary Top
Steel container used for shipping your belongings oversease, can be used for sea, road or rail shipments
A "chunk" of storage space on a physical resource, typically a tape drive, which is retrieved in its entirety whenever an entity or object in that container is accessed Primarily used for data which is infrequently accessed, or for subsets of data that are typically accessed together