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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An enclosure within which electric circuits are connected.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In electricity, the appliance used to connect underground or concealed electric conductors.
  • noun A chamber connecting two or more lines of pipe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Elec.) A box through which the main conductors of a system of electric distribution pass, and where connection is made with branch circuits.

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