Cox may refer to: *

Cox (surname) The surname Cox is of English or Welsh origin, and may have originated independently in several places in Great Britain, with the variations arriving at a standard spelling only later. There are also two native Scottish & Irish surnames which wer ...

, including people with the name

Companies

Cox Enterprises Cox Enterprises, Inc. is a 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 Communications and Co ...

, 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. It i ...

, 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 pri ...

, a company that owns television and radio stations **

Cox Automotive Cox Enterprises, Inc. is a 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 Communications and ...

, 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 of ...

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

Places

Antarctica

Cox Glacier Cox Glacier () is a small glacier immediately east of Rochray Glacier on Thurston Island, flowing south to Abbot Ice Shelf in Peacock Sound. It was delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6 in January 1960, and named by the Adv ...

Cox Nunatak Cox Nunatak is a nunatak, high, standing south of Rankine Rock in the northeastern Dufek Massif, Pensacola Mountains. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1956–66, and named by the Adv ...

* Cox Peaks *

Cox Point Cox Point () is a rock headland at the southwest side of the terminus of Garfield Glacier where the latter discharges into Hull Bay, on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. The point was first observed and photographed from aircraft of the United States ...

Cox Reef Cox Reef () is a group of drying rocks lying northwest of Box Reef off the south end of Adelaide Island. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1963 for Able Seaman Edward F. Cox, a member of the Royal Navy The Royal Navy ( ...

United States

Cox, Florida Cox is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Florida, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It con ...

Cox, Missouri Cox is an unincorporated community in Macon County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tenness ...

* Cox College (Georgia), a defunct private women's college located in College Park, Georgia * Cox College (Missouri), a private college in Springfield, Missouri *

Cox Furniture Store The Cox Furniture Store (also known as the Simonson Opera House or Edwards Opera House or New Baird Theater) c. 1890 is a historic site in Gainesville, Florida, United States. Built in the form and style of a small Romanesque Revival church, ...

, c. 1890, a historic site in Gainesville, Florida *

Cox Furniture Warehouse The Cox Furniture Warehouse is a historic site in Gainesville, Florida, United States located at 602 South Main Street. On June 10, 1994, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Place ...

, a historic site in Gainesville, Florida *

Cox Run Cox Run is a tributary of Little Muncy Creek in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately long and flows through Moreland Township, Wolf Township, and Muncy Creek Township. The watershed of the stream has an area ...

, a tributary of Little Muncy Creek in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania *

Cox site The Cox site ( 15WD107) is a Middle Fort Ancient culture (1200 to 1400 CE) archaeological site located in Woodford County, Kentucky, in the Bluegrass region of the state. The site is located on a large ridge and is approximately by , although the ...

Elsewhere

Cox Island Cox Island is a northern Canadian island in eastern Hudson Bay and forms part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region. While situated off the western coast of Quebec's Ungava Peninsula, it, like other islands in Hudson Bay and James Bay, are in Nunavut ...

, 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, housed i ...

, France *

Cox, Alicante Cox () is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Vega Baja del Segura in the Valencian Community, Spain. This town is located at the feet of the Sierra de Callosa Sierra de Callosa ( ca-valencia, Serra de Callosa)Vicenç M. Rosselló i Verger, ' ...

, Spain *

Cox Peninsula __NOTOC__ The Wagait Shire is a local government area in the Northern Territory of Australia. The council was established as the Cox Peninsula Community Government Council on 28 April 1995 and renamed with effect from 1 July 2008. The shire is l ...

, 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 formation of prostanoids, including thromboxane and prostaglandins such as prosta ...

, 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 mitochondria of eukaryotes. It is the last enzyme in the respiratory electr ...

, an enzyme * C_OX, oxide capacitance in

MOSFET The metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the controlled oxidation of silicon. It has an insulated gate, the voltage of which d ...

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 hazar ...

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 ( ; colloquially known as the cox or coxie) is the member who does not row but steers the boat and faces forward, towards the bow. The coxswain is responsible for steering the boat and coordinating the power and ...

, 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, at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire, England, by the retired brewer and horticulturist Richard Cox. Though the parentage of the cultivar i ...

, 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 be ...

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