multibox

English

Noun

multibox (plural multiboxes)

1. Alternative form of multi-box
   • 2001, Carl Sorensen, As I Saw It: How a TV Cameraman Covered News in Bygone Days:

     The technician would provideus with a “multibox” to plug our sound system into so we could record the official speeches given by Mrs.Carter and Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley.

   • 2003, Michael Perman, Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908:

     However, Florida's multibox election law of 1884 was modeled after South Carolina's eight-box law of 1882 and represented a throwback to the electoral jugglery of the 1880s rather than the innovation that a secret ballot would have signified.

   • 2005, Budi Kurniawan, Struts Design and Programming: A Tutorial, page 88:

     The b tag is also rendered as a check box. However, the multibox tag is mapped to an array of strings or an array of other primitives.

Adjective

multibox (comparative more multibox, superlative most multibox)

1. Alternative form of multi-box
   • 1984, Geodex Structural Information Service:

     The thin-walled box beam element, which also takes account of warping distortional effects, when combined with traditional beam elements into a grillage model may adequately represent the three-dimensional behaviour of multibox superstructure.

   • 1994, ACM SIGPLAN Notices:

     So, instead of the two-box approach of the Lex/Yacc type tools, we introduce a multibox parser where the number of boxes is determined by the complexity of the parsed language.

   • 2002, First North American Conference on Robotic Milking:

     An important advantage of multibox systems is that all milking boxes use the expensive teatcup attachment facility and some other facilities of the milking parlour in common.