Black box (disambiguation)
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A black box is a device, object, or system whose inner workings are unknown; only the input, transfer, and output are known characteristics.
The term black box can also refer to:
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[edit] In science and technology
- Black box theory, a philosophical theory
- Blackbox, a window manager that works on X Window System platforms
- BlackBox Component Builder, the component-based development environment for Component Pascal
- Black Box Corporation, Pennsylvania-based supplier of computer network hardware
- Project Blackbox, prototype name for Sun Modular Datacenter
- Black box (phreaking), device to defeat telephone toll charges
- Black Box, the common name for the tree species Eucalyptus largiflorens
- An often used synonym for a flight recorder
[edit] In music
- Black Box (band), music group popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s
- Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970-1978), collection of the albums by the original members of Black Sabbath
- Black Box - Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years, box set album compiling songs released on Wax Trax! Records between 1980 and 1993
- Black Box (album), compilation album by Naked City
- Black Box, song by the group Panurge
- "Black Box (song)", the debut single of Australian Idol winner Stan Walker
- A Black Box, an album by Peter Hammill
[edit] In entertainment
- Black Box (film), Argentine film (Caja Negra)
- The Black Box (serial), a 1915 film serial
- Black Box (book), by Israeli writer Amos Oz
- Black Box (game), board and computer game
- Black Box Games, video game studio bought by Electronic Arts
- Black Box (comics) a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe
- Black Box (The Outer Limits), an episode from the 1995 revival of that TV series
- La Boîte noire, a French film
- La boîte noire, a Spirou et Fantasio comic album.
- Black Box, a TV series on the investigations of aviation accidents
[edit] Other uses
- Black box (transportation), commonly used informal term, a durable onboard data-recording device used in various forms of transport
- Black box art museum, for modern artworks
- Black box theater, simple unadorned performance space
- Black box warning, U.S. warning on a prescription drug
- Black Box, common name of Eucalyptus largiflorens, a tree native to Australia
- In copyright law, a single-purpose device which allows encrypted satellite television signals to be viewed without payment
- "Black Box", a nickname for the Nuclear Football, the briefcase that accompanies the President of the United States and contains nuclear missile launch codes
- Black box, a radionics device which supposedly diagnoses illness
[edit] See also
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