Cox or COX may refer to:

Companies

Cox Enterprises Cox Enterprises, Inc. is an American private company, privately held global conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, with approximately 55,000 employees and $21 billion in total revenue. Its major ope ...

, a media and communications company **

Cox Communications Cox Communications, Inc. (also known as Cox Cable and formerly Cox Broadcasting Corporation, Dimension Cable Services and Times-Mirror Cable), is an American digital cable television provider, telecommunications and home automation services comp ...

, cable provider **

Cox Media Group CMG Media Corporation (doing business as Cox Media Group) is an American media conglomerate principally owned by Apollo Global Management in conjunction with Cox Enterprises, which maintains a 29% minority stake in the company. The company p ...

, a company that owns television and radio stations **

Cox Automotive Cox Enterprises, Inc. is an American privately held global conglomerate headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, with approximately 55,000 employees and $21 billion in total revenue. Its major operating subsidiaries are Cox Media Group, ...

, an Atlanta-based business unit of Cox Enterprises *

Cox Models {{For, Cox models in statistics, proportional hazards models Cox Models, a former division of Estes Industries of Penrose, Colorado, was a multimillion-dollar hobby company, is one of the hobby industry's oldest companies and is noted for its pr ...

, aka Cox Hobbies *

Cox Sports Cox Sports was a regional sports network that served the United States New England region until 2012. Cox Sports New England served as the local programming outlet for Cox Communications, the cable service provider in Rhode Island and parts o ...

, a regional sports network that served the United States New England region until 2012

Places

Antarctica

* Cox Glacier * Cox Nunatak * Cox Peaks * Cox Point * Cox Reef

United States

* Cox, Florida * Cox, Missouri *

Cox College (Georgia) Cox College was a private Women's colleges in the United States, women's college located in College Park, Georgia, College Park, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia that operated from 1842 to 1934. Cox College was originally called LaGrange Female Se ...

, a defunct private women's college located in College Park, Georgia *

Cox College (Missouri) Cox College is a private college associated with the CoxHealth System in Springfield, Missouri. History The college was established in 1907 as the Burge Deaconess Training School for Nurses. In 1996, the institution changed its name to Lester L ...

, a private college in Springfield, Missouri * Cox Furniture Store, c. 1890, a historic site in Gainesville, Florida * Cox Furniture Warehouse, a historic site in Gainesville, Florida * Cox Run, a tributary of Little Muncy Creek in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania * Cox site

Elsewhere

* Cox Island, Canada *

Cox, Haute-Garonne Cox is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. It is about 40 km north west of Toulouse. The name Cox is derived from the Occitan word 'Coth' meaning 'top of the hill'. The village has a museum of pottery, house ...

, France *

Cox, Alicante Cox () is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Vega Baja del Segura in the Valencian Community The Valencian Community is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish Autonomous co ...

, Spain *

Cox Peninsula __NOTOC__ The Wagait Shire is a local government area in the Northern Territory of Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Au ...

, Australia

Science and technology

Cyclooxygenase Cyclooxygenase (COX), officially known as prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase (PTGS), is an enzyme (specifically, a family of isozymes, ) that is responsible for biosynthesis of prostanoids, including thromboxane and prostaglandins such a ...

(COX), an enzyme *

Cytochrome c oxidase The enzyme cytochrome c oxidase or Complex IV (was , now reclassified as a translocasEC 7.1.1.9 is a large transmembrane protein complex found in bacteria, archaea, and the mitochondria of eukaryotes. It is the last enzyme in the Cellular respir ...

, an enzyme * C_OX, oxide capacitance in

MOSFET upright=1.3, Two power MOSFETs in amperes">A in the ''on'' state, dissipating up to about 100 watt">W and controlling a load of over 2000 W. A matchstick is pictured for scale. In electronics, the metal–oxide–semiconductor field- ...

devices * Cox model, a

proportional hazards model Proportional hazards models are a class of survival models in statistics. Survival models relate the time that passes, before some event occurs, to one or more covariates that may be associated with that quantity of time. In a proportional haz ...

in statistics *

Cox model engine Cox model engines are used to power small Model aircraft, model airplanes, model cars and model boats. They were in production for more than 60 years between 1945 and 2006. The business is named for founder Leroy M. Cox. He started L.M. Cox Manufa ...

s, made by L.M. Cox Manufacturing Inc. and later Cox Hobbies *

Cox process In probability theory, a Cox process, also known as a doubly stochastic Poisson process is a point process which is a generalization of a Poisson process where the intensity that varies across the underlying mathematical space (often space or time) ...

, a point process in probability theory

Other uses

* abbreviation of

coxswain (rowing) In a rowing crew, the coxswain ( or ; colloquially known as the cox or coxie) is a crewmember who does not row but directs the boat. The coxswain sits facing the bow, unlike the rowers, and is responsible for steering the boat and coordinat ...

, a member of a boat crew *

Cox's Orange Pippin Cox's Orange Pippin, in Britain often referred to simply as Cox, is an apple cultivar first grown in 1825 or 1830 at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire, England, by the retired brewer and horticulturist Richard Cox (horticulturist), Richard Cox. Thoug ...

, a variety of apple also known as Cox in Britain * an abbreviation of

Cox's Criminal Cases Cox's Criminal Cases are a series of law reports of cases decided from 1843 to 26 June 1941. They were published in 31 volumes from 1846 to 1948. They were then incorporated in the Times Law Reports. For the purpose of citation, their name may b ...

, British law reports * ''Cox'' (novel), a 2016 novel by Christoph Ransmayr