Something that holds things, especially for transport or storage.
Grand caisson de transport.
Lieu de rassemblement de choses d'origines diverses.
1. In OLE terminology, a file containing linked or embedded objects. See also OLE.
2. In SGML, an element that has content as opposed to one consisting solely of the tag name and attributes. See also element, SGML, tag.
3. In Sun Microsystem’s J2EE network platform, an entity that provides life cycle management, security, deployment, and runtime services to components such as beans, Web components, applets, and application clients. Each type of container created (for example, EJB, Web, JSP, servlet, applet, and application client) also provides component-specific services. See also applet, component (definition 3), enterprise java bean, JSP, servlet.