multi-box

• multi box, multibox

multi-box (plural multi-boxes)

1. The practice of playing an online game with multiple accounts simultaneously.
2. A box with several compartments.
   • 1999, Jan Trägårdh, Peter Gyllan, Svend Kindt, Design Jan:

     Inside, the cabinet was clearly divided into practical modules with loose Multi-Boxes with tight- fitting lids for butter, cheese and sliced meat.

   • 2002, Drum: A Magazine of Africa for Africa, page 71:

     ... the holder for glasses/sunglasses, the storage box under the cargo area, luggage side boxes, floor console, glove box, a multi-box next to the steering wheel and the door map pockets.

3. An electronic device with multiple sites where components can be plugged in.
   • 1980, Ship & Boat International - Volume 33, page 35:

     The existing standard VCS units are multi-boxes, usually 6 in deep, which fit into a 6 in x 6 in grid on the front panel, and the new units had to be compatible.

   • 1984, The Detroiter - Volume 6, Issues 1-6:

     If you really want to win points with the electronic media, supply a multi- box— an electrical box that contains multiple outlets into which TV and radio reporters can directly plug their microphone cords without attaching a microphone.

   • 1989, Sharon K. Amatetti, Prevention Plus II, page 483:

     I Provide equipment for multi-plugging into the amplifications system (a “multi-box”) and check to be sure power and fuses are adequate.

   1. A power strip.
4. Something that is composed of multiple boxes.
   • 1930, The Automobile Engineer - Volume 20, page 85:

     A number of multi-boxes are made to cover a group of holes and are driven by means of a small horizontal drilling unit.

   • 1977, Marine Engineering, Technical Reports (Transactions).: Series A.:

     The boxes can be assembled into nests of 'multi-boxes' as required for a particular console or assembly.

5. One of a set of multiple ballot boxes, one for each candidate.
   • 1985, Francis Aloysius Wazarwahi Bwengye, The agony of Uganda: from Idi Amin to Obote, page 15:

     In the case of the use of multi-boxes experience has shown. that the system engenders gross malpractices and rigging.

   • 1995, Uganda. Commission of Inquiry into Violations of Human Rights, Report of the Commission of Inquiry Into Violations of Human Rights:

     Mr. Chairman, the Commission took a soft and a weak stand, they kept saying 'we cannot amend the law' because they were talking about one ballot box and the law talks about multi-boxes, they were talking about counting the votes on the spot, and law talks about collecting boxes from the polling stations and putting them in a central place overnight.

   • 2004, Richard Franklin Bensel, The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, page 40:

     Since each of the several boxes in the multi-box system held tickets of only one type, it was not possible to determine how voters who voted for one candidate, say, for Congress, voted for other offices.

multi-box (comparative more multi-box, superlative most multi-box)

1. Having multiple boxes.
   • 1994, Animal Behaviour Abstracts - Volume 22, Issues 2501-5000, page 27:

     Bluebirds on multi-box territories had shorter intervals between broods than bluebirds on territories with only one nestbox, but competition between eastern bluebirds and tree swallows was more intense at multi-box sites.

   • 2011, David M. Glover, William J. Jenkins, Scott C. Doney, Modeling Methods for Marine Science, page 223:

     Finally, we extend the two-box model to a multi-box model of the world ocean.