container

noun containers

1. An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
2. A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods. Will container development merely bring about a substitution for the body of the covered wagon? Probably not, in his view, but he believes that the size and tonnage of the container are likely to increase pari passu with the lifting capacity of handling appliances.

   Similar: cargo container, shipping container

3. broadly Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
4. A file format that can hold various types of data. As the MP4 container can store audio, video, or both, the M4A naming and file extension is used to hint that this MP4 container holds solely audio information.

   Similar: container format

5. An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects. This advantage is the primary incentive for using a list container, rather than a vector or a deque.
6. Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components. Flex automatically creates a TabBar container at the top of the TabNavigator container, with a tab corresponding to each child container. Each tab can have its own label and icon.
7. A web container.
8. A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself. Generally, when people think of serverless computing, they tend to think of applications with back-ends that run on third-party services, also described as code running on ephemeral containers.

   Similar: software container

9. A type of cryptic device where one word is inserted into another. As with all varieties of cryptic clues, the container device can be used in conjunction with other devices, especially in more complex cryptic crosswords.

Similar: container, receptacle