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Catchers Box: Area behind home plate in which the catcher must stand until the pitcher delivers the ball.

Letterbox Mode: A method of presenting widescreen images on a standard screen television. In order to preserve the aspect ratio of the original video content, the picture is scaled down so that it fits the . . . View Full Definition

Lightbox: Box of fluorescent tubes balanced for white light and covered with translucent glass or plastic. Used for viewing, registering or correcting film negatives and positives.

Matte Box: Is a mask used to make images suitable for wide-screen projection.

Mirror Box: Is a box containing one or more mirrors, usually angled to the light beam, as in the main body of an slr camera.

Lockbox: A collection and processing service provided to firms by banks, which collect payments from a dedicated postal box to which the firm directs its customers to send payment to. The banks make . . . View Full Definition

Letterbox: A process by which a widescreen film is presented on video. The top and bottom of the video frame is blackened, and the widescreen film frame is reduced to fit into this frame-within-the-vid . . . View Full Definition

Homeobox: A short stretch of nucleotides whose base sequence is virtually identical in all the genes that contain it. Homeoboxes have been found in many organisms from fruit flies to human beings. In . . . View Full Definition

Hatchback (Box Or Enclosure): An enclosure of such size and shape as to enable its efficient use in hatchback-style vehicles. Normally, these enclosures are somewhat deeper than standard angled enclosures and have either . . . View Full Definition

Homeobox Genes: Pattern genes that establish the body plan and position of organs in response to gradients of regulatory molecules.