unbox
verbEtymology From un- + box.
1
To remove from a box.
- The booksellers' tasks were to unbox, shelve, and handle cash.2005, Andrew Laties, Rebel Bookseller:
- Clips in which children’s toys are unboxed are some of the most popular videos on YouTube.2014 December 16, Alex Frank, “Happy Unboxing Day! A Small Guide to the Very Large World of Unboxing Videos”, in Vogue:
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed.
- When a boxing or unboxing operation occurs in code, whether it was implicit or explicit, the IL generated includes the box or unbox command.2004, Stephen Teilhet, Jay Hilyard, C# Cookbook: