unbox

English

Verb

unbox (third-person singular simple present unboxes, present participle unboxing, simple past and past participle unboxed)

1. (transitive) To remove from a box.
   • 2005, Andrew Laties, Rebel Bookseller

     The booksellers' tasks were to unbox, shelve, and handle cash.

2. (transitive) (computing) To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed.
   • 2004, Stephen Teilhet, Jay Hilyard, C# Cookbook

     When a boxing or unboxing operation occurs in code, whether it was implicit or explicit, the IL generated includes the box or unbox command.