sandbox.

1. A restricted computing environment used to run or test software while limiting its access to the surrounding system.

2. A box or bounded area filled with sand, especially for children to play in.

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Words that belong together

• a software sandbox
• run in a sandbox

On the page

They ran the recovered program in a sandbox before granting it access to the archive.

The sandbox logged every attempted request beyond its boundary.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular sandbox; plural sandboxes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: sandboxes.