Science, technology and mathematics

• Automotive:
  • Boost, positive manifold
    Inlet manifold
    In automotive engineering, an inlet manifold or intake manifold is the part of an engine that supplies the fuel/air mixture to the cylinders...
    
     pressure in cars, see Turbocharger#Pressure increase.
    • a loose term for turbo or supercharger
      Supercharger
      A supercharger is an air compressor used for forced induction of an internal combustion engine.The greater mass flow-rate provides more oxygen to support combustion than would be available in a naturally aspirated engine, which allows more fuel to be burned and more work to be done per cycle,...
      
      
  • A slang term meaning to start a vehicle, see jump start (vehicle)
    Jump start (vehicle)
    A jump start, also called a boost, is a method of starting an automobile or other vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine when the vehicle's battery has been discharged. A second battery is temporarily connected to provide starting power to the disabled vehicle...
    
    
• Lorentz boost, a type of Lorentz transformation
  Lorentz transformation
  In physics, the Lorentz transformation or Lorentz-Fitzgerald transformation describes how, according to the theory of special relativity, two observers' varying measurements of space and time can be converted into each other's frames of reference. It is named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik...
  
  
• Boost converter
  Boost converter
  A boost converter is a power converter with an output DC voltage greater than its input DC voltage. It is a class of switching-mode power supply containing at least two semiconductor switches and at least one energy storage element...
  
  , an electrical circuit variation of a DC to DC converter, which increases (Boosts) the voltage.

Computer science and engineering

• Boost (C++ libraries), a set of free peer-reviewed portable C++ libraries
• Boosting
  Boosting
  Boosting is a machine learning meta-algorithm for performing supervised learning. Boosting is based on the question posed by Kearns: can a set of weak learners create a single strong learner? A weak learner is defined to be a classifier which is only slightly correlated with the true classification...
  
  , a technique used in machine learning algorithms
• Boost converter
  Boost converter
  A boost converter is a power converter with an output DC voltage greater than its input DC voltage. It is a class of switching-mode power supply containing at least two semiconductor switches and at least one energy storage element...
  
  , a type of power supply

Food and drink

• Boost (health food)
  Boost (health food)
  Boost is a chocolate-flavored health food drink manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline. It was launched in 1977 in India. Brand ambassador for Boost in 1986 was the cricketer Kapil Dev. Sachin Tendulkar became the brand ambassador with his debut in 1989. Virender Sehwag joined in 2002. Later in 2008,...
  
  , a chocolate flavored drink produced by GlaxoSmithKline
• Boost (chocolate)
  Boost (chocolate)
  Boost is a brand of chocolate bar currently manufactured by Cadbury. The bar is sold in the United Kingdom and South Africa by Cadbury UK and in Australia and New Zealand by Cadbury Australia. Its wrapper says that it consists of milk chocolate with caramel and biscuit filling...
  
  , a chocolate bar produced by Cadbury
• Boost (drink)
  Boost (drink)
  Boost is an energy drink brand that is produced in the United Kingdom by Boost Drinks Ltd. The company was founded in 2001, and currently has four different brands.Most of the drinks are packaged in 1 litre or 500ml silver P.E.T bottles....
  
  , an energy drink from the UK
• Boost (retail outlet), a fresh juice outlet.
• Boost (beverage)
  Boost (beverage)
  Boost is the brand name of a line of products first introduced in 1995 by Mead Johnson, which was purchased by Novartis along with all its other adult nutrition products by Mead Johnson in 2002, and has been sold to Nestlé along with the Gerber brand on September 1, 2007...
  
  , a nutritional energy beverage now owned by Nestlé

Other

• Boost Mobile
  Boost Mobile
  Boost Mobile is a brand of wireless prepay service run by Sprint Nextel, operating within the Sprint Prepaid Group along with Virgin Mobile USA, Assurance Wireless, and payLo by Virgin Mobile. Boost Mobile uses GSMand iDEN networks...
  
  , a division of Sprint Nextel
• To boost, a slang term referring to theft
  Theft
  In common usage, theft is the illegal taking of another person's property without that person's permission or consent. The word is also used as an informal shorthand term for some crimes against property, such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, shoplifting and fraud...
  
  
• To boost, to strengthen, elevate, or promote something; see booster (disambiguation)
• Boost it, a slang term which means, quickly go somewhere
• Boost (comics)
  Boost (comics)
  Boost is a fictional mutant in the Marvel Comics universe. His first appearance was in Uncanny X-Men '97 Annual.-Fictional character biography:...
  
  , a Marvel Comics character