black box
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
edit- Since circa 1945 in both main senses (that is, event recorders and objects with unknown innards), which are historically related to each other; for details, see black box § History and flight recorder § Terminology.
- (type of theater): Such theaters are often painted black.
Noun
editblack box (plural black boxes)
- (informal, aviation) A flight recorder; the brightly colored cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders in an aircraft designed to aid in determining the cause of an accident.
- scrutinizing all utterances recorded by the black box
- (transport, by extension) Any similar device on motor vehicles, such as rail event recorders and ship trip recorders.
- Hyponyms: tachograph, tacho
- the pilothouse's analogue of an airliner's black box
- A theoretical construct or device with known input and output characteristics but unknown method of operation.
- The authentication method and its details can be treated as a black box for purposes of this security architecture overview.
- A device used in phreaking that prevents the calling party from being billed for the call placed.
- (drama) A type of theater characterized by a lack of decoration or complex mechanisms.
Synonyms
edit- (trip recorder): event recorder, trip recorder
- opaque box
Hypernyms
editHyponyms
edit(trip recorder):
Coordinate terms
edit(trip recorder):
(colored boxes, especially electronic ones):
Related terms
edit- (event recorder): black box insurance
- (theoretical construct or device): black-box testing, black body
- (mysterious production of output): black magic
- (blackened rectangle): black box warning
Translations
editrecorders in an aircraft
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theoretical construct or device
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Verb
editblack box (third-person singular simple present black boxes, present participle black boxing, simple past and past participle black boxed)
- (web development) To focus on the inputs and outputs without worrying about the internal complexity.