unbox
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editunbox (third-person singular simple present unboxes, present participle unboxing, simple past and past participle unboxed)
- (transitive) To remove from a box.
- 2005, Andrew Laties, Rebel Bookseller:
- The booksellers' tasks were to unbox, shelve, and handle cash.
- (transitive, computing) To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed.
- 2004, Stephen Teilhet, Jay Hilyard, C# Cookbook:
- When a boxing or unboxing operation occurs in code, whether it was implicit or explicit, the IL generated includes the box or unbox command.
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editto remove from a box
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