Webster's Online Dictionary
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Common Expressions: pizza box
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| Pizza box | A pizza box is a cardboard box in which pizza is packaged, usually for take-out or delivery. It is generally long and wide but thin to allow pizza to be placed inside. Some pizza boxes allow two circular pizzas to be placed side-by-side. While pizza is never stacked inside the box to prevent it from sticking together, the boxes themselves are easily stackable. (references) | ||
| Pizza box form factor | In computing, a pizza box is a style of case for computers. It tends to be very thin, normally 1U to 2U in height, and wide and flat. The result is a case that looks like the boxes used to deliver pizza, thus the name. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: pizza box
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| Pizza box | Computing | Pizza box [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. Two megabyte single-platter removable disk packs used to be called pizzas, and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is. [Jargon File]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
| Pizza box | Computing | Pizza box n. [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. Two-meg single-platter removable disk packs used to be called pizzas, and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is. Source: Jargon File.. | |
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Invention: pizza box
| Year | Description |
| 1993 | Invention patented by Michael Valdman and Michael Schum on June 23th, 1993. Abstract: A pizza box having a top and bottom each formed of a single layer of biodegradable, insulating material, such as molded fiber. The bottom provides an insulating airspace between the hot pizza product and the bottom major surface area and another insulating airspace between the bottom undersurface and a resting surface. The top and bottom, when closed, provided a closed chamber with no external air circulation. Thermal conduction paths are reduced by the small surface area contact between the bottom and the product and the small surface contact area between the bottom and a resting surface. Additional features include a closed storage chamber without air vents, a truncated cone or truncated pyramid shape, moisture absorption by the top inner surface, liquid resistance by the bottom top surface, stackable tops and bottoms, air restricting closure walls, cutting channels which also add strength to the bottom and radiation reflective color. |
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