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Boxen

Box"en\ (b[o^]ks"'n), a. Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus). [R.]

The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. --Dryden.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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boxen

/bok'sn/ pl.n. [very common; by analogy with VAXen] Fanciful plural of box often encountered in the phrase `Unix boxen', used to describe commodity Unix hardware. The connotation is that any two Unix boxen are interchangeable.
Jargon File 4.2.0
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boxen
/bok'sn/ (By analogy with VAXen) A fanciful plural of box often encountered in the phrase "Unix boxen", used to describe commodity Unix hardware. The connotation is that any two Unix boxen are interchangeable.
[The Jargon File]
(1994-11-29)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Language Translation for : Boxen
Spanish: boxearboxear,
German: boxen,
Japanese: ボクシングをする
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