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Examples of boxed

boxed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The two interesting cases for encoding types from the source calculus are those for the base type and for boxed types.
Each boxed name is a reference to a state: there are two self-references and one to the code for the end state.
A boxed value may turn out to be undefined, since an attempt to evaluate the closure may loop, whereas an unboxed value is always defined.
The reforms, however, had by 1993 boxed in the ruling party, making it almost impossible to steal an election.
The greatest risk however was to the major and minor hall ceiling systems which had been developed as boxed plywood beams with laminated lead linings.
Each boxed letter represents two biologically independent samples.
The nine boxed solutions show deep concavities and holes.
The drawings, photograph and accompanying report went on sale as a boxed set at £100 a throw.
Unless special precautions are taken, the resulting floating-point numbers will be stored as individual objects in the heap (a 'boxed' representation).
Moreover, only the boxed component is relevant to linking the verb's direct arguments.
The individually isolated fish were kept in small mesh-bottomed boxed (20i10i10 cm) floating in a 1 m# tank (500 l) housing the 18 pooled fish.
The boxed area is the general location from which the materials were obtained.
As a result, polymorphic functions can take only arguments of boxed type, because arguments must be passed to such functions in a uniform representation.
Boxed constructors already existing in the program cannot be used for their corresponding unboxed values.
With occasional variations - the gatefold sleeve, the boxed set - this has remained the standard form of packaging.
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