Container

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

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The file used by a virtual disk encryption technology to encompass and protect other files.

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

Wordset Dictionary

any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

—70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

—50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Containers
possessive: Container's
pluralpossessive: Containers'

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