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Definition of container

In HTML or XHTML, a tag pair that contains content (such as a

tag) as opposed to one consisting solely of the tag name and attributes (standalone tags).

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Other definitions of container

An abstraction for associating one or more entities to a relational database or other store.

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A directory object that can contain other directory objects. In Active Directory, the schema definition of each object class determines the types of objects that can be containers of instances of the class.

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A control flow element that provides package structure.

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A handling unit for shipping and receiving items.

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An application that contains a linked or embedded OLE object from another application.

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A logical grouping of entity and association sets.

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An object that can contain one or more child objects.

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A Shell item that can contain other items.

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A user-defined set of blobs within a storage account. A container resource has no associated content, only properties and metadata.

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An article of transport equipment that meets American National Standards Institute/International Organization for Standardization standards that is designed to facilitate and optimize the carriage of goods by one or more modes of transportation without intermediate handling of the contents.

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