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It's the same as a fuse box. Sort of. The electric service panel used to be called the fuse box, fuse panel,  circuit breaker panel, or any number of other terms. Today, most homes have what we call the electrical service panel, or simply, the service panel. It's not literally the same thing, but it does provide the same function.
An adapter can be used to effectively bring together dissimilar connectors. There are hundreds of types of electrical connectors. Connectors may join two lengths of flexible copper wire or cable, or connect a wire or cable to an electrical terminal. In computing, an electrical connector can also be known as a physical interface (compare physical layer in OSI model of networking). Cable glands, known as cable connectors in the US, connect wires to devices mechanically rather than electrically and are distinct from quick-disconnects performing the latter.