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Definition: Black Box |
Black BoxNoun1. Equipment that records information about the performance of an aircraft during flight. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | Black box |
Aerospace | 1. In engineering design, a unit whose output is a specified function of the input, but for which the method of converting input to output is not necessarily specified.2. Colloquially, any unit, usually an electronic device such as an amplifier, which can be mounted in, or removed from, a rocket, spacecraft, or the like as a single package. (references) |
Mining | A separate and self-contained electronic unit or element of an electronicdevice which can be treated as a single package. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | BLACK BOX. A lawyer. Cant. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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A black box is a system where we have a well defined understanding of its inputs and output characteristics, but no idea what's going on inside.
There are several main senses:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Black box."
Crosswords: Black Box |
| Specialty definitions using "black box": BLACK BOX, Black Screen of Death ♦ Pentium II, powder box ♦ TANK TENDER. (references) |
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Screenplays | I hope they can find the little black box. (Batman Forever; writing credit: Bob Kane; Lee Batchler) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Black box affair: il mondo trema (1966) The Black Box (1915) Black Box (1998) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Formations near the Black Box, San Rafael Swell.Credit: Jerry Sintz. | |
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| USA | Black Box Corporation |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cable black box | 1,750 | tv black box | 7 |
black box | 1,060 | black box recording | 7 |
black box recorder | 68 | cable tv black box | 7 |
black box testing | 47 | black box linux | 7 |
black box corporation | 34 | black box earth shoes wi | 7 |
car black box | 34 | black box decker tool | 6 |
digital cable black box | 30 | airline black box safety | 6 |
black box digital | 27 | black box investing | 6 |
black box car in | 26 | airplane black box | 6 |
black box corp | 23 | black box vehicle | 6 |
automobile black box | 23 | black box window | 6 |
black box network services | 20 | satellite black box | 6 |
darwins black box | 16 | black box development | 6 |
black box theater | 15 | black box lyrics | 6 |
auto black box | 12 | black box electronics | 6 |
black box game | 11 | black box earth shoes wisconsin | 5 |
black box collector | 9 | black box cheat stone x | 5 |
black box network | 8 | make a black box | 5 |
black box earth shoes | 8 | black box box testing white | 5 |
automotive black box | 8 | black box inc | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "black box"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | black-box, black box, sort kasse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | black box (crash recorder, flight data recorder), zwarte doos (crash recorder, dark box, flight data recorder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | musta laatikko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | boite noire, boîte noire, black box, enregistreur d'accident. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | black Box, schwarzer Kasten (crash recorder), flugschreiber (flight data recorder), FDS, Fahrdatenspeicher, "schwarzer kasten" (crash recorder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαύρο κουτί. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scatola nera (crash recorder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ブラウン管 (black, Black Africa, black chamber, black coffee, black comedy, black ghetto, black hole, black humor, black journalism, black magic, black market, black Monday, black money, Black Panther, black pepper, Black Power, black shaft, black tie, blackjack, blacklist, blackout, bland, blank, blanket, blanket area, blood bank, blood elite, bra, bra cup, bracket, Brad Pitt, branch, brand, brand image, brand loyalty, brandy, brass, brass-band, brasserie, brassie, brassiere, Bratislava, bravo, Brazil, brothers, brunch, brush, brush back pitch, brushy, Brussels, cathode-ray tube). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ブラックボックス . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ackblay oxbay caixa-preta, caixa preta, caixa negra (crash recorder, flight data recorder). (various references) черный ящик. (various references) caja negra (crash recorder). (various references) black box, svart låda (flight recorder), färdskrivare (flight recorder, tachograph). (various references) kara kutu (flight recorder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-k-l-o-x" | |
-3 letters: black, block, cabob, cloak, coxal, kabob. | |
-4 letters: back, balk, blab, blob, bloc, bock, bola, calk, calo, calx, coal, coax, cobb, cola, coxa, kola, lack, loca, lock. | |
-5 letters: abo, alb, bal, boa, bob, box, cab, cob, col, cox, kab, koa, kob, lab, lac, lax, lob, lox, oak, oca, oka. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 61 63 6B      42 6F 78 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01000010 01101111 01111000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l a c k   B o x |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0061 0063 006B      0042 006F 0078 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36786769772368190 |
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