unbox

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Verb

unbox (unboxes, present participle unboxing; past and past participle unboxed)

1. (transitive) To remove from a box.
2. (transitive, computing) To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed.
   • 2004, Stephen Teilhet, Jay Hilyard, C# Cookbook

     When a boxing or unboxing operation occurs in code, whether it was implicit or explicit, the IL generated includes the box or unbox command.

Synonyms

• (remove from a box) unpack, uncase, undo

Antonyms

• (remove from a box) pack, box up

Translations

• German: (aus einem Karton) auspacken

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