A black box is a device, object, or system whose inner workings are unknown; only the "stimuli inputs" and "output reactions" are known characteristics.
Black box may also refer to:
Science and technology
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Black box (phreaking), a device to defeat telephone toll charges
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Eucalyptus largiflorens, a tree species with the common name black box
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A descrambling device for cable television piracy
Transportation
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Accident data recorder, an optional vehicle installable device to record information related to (near) traffic accidents
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Event data recorder, a device installed in some automobiles to record information related to vehicle crashes or accidents
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Flight recorder, an aircraft-borne device used in disaster investigation, consisting of a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder
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Flight operations quality assurance
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Quick access recorder
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Train event recorder, a device that records data about the operation of train controls and performance
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Voyage data recorder, a device designed to collect data from various sensors on board a ship
Computing
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Black box theory, a systems engineering theory for black boxes
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Black-box testing, a form of software testing that involves adjusting inputs to an application without reference to the source code of the application
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Blackbox, a window manager that works on X Window System platforms
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BlackBox Component Builder, software development environment for Component Pascal
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Sun Modular Datacenter, prototype name Project Blackbox
Medicine
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Any of a number of devices developed and sold by Albert Abrams, based on the pseudo-science of radionics
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Black box warning, a type of warning that may be applied to medicines in the United States
Film and television
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Black Box (1978 film), an American short film by Scott B and Beth B
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Black Box (2002 film), an Argentine drama film ( Caja Negra)
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Black Box (2013 film), an American drama film
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Black Box (2020 film), an American science-fiction horror film
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Black Box (2021 film), a Franco-Belgian mystery thriller film
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Black Box (TV series), a 2014 ABC television series
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Black Box ( The Outer Limits), an episode from the 1995 revival of that TV series
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Survival in the Sky, a TV series on the investigations of aviation accidents known as Black Box in the UK
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The Black Box (2005 film), a French mystery film
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The Black Box (serial), a 1915 film serial
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Black Box (video magazine), a Hungarian documentary video magazine and filmmaking group
Games
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Black Box (game), board and computer game
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Blackbox (video game), an iOS puzzle game
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EA Black Box, the video game studio formerly known as Black Box Games
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The Black Box, a canceled video game; See The Orange Box
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A name used to refer to the first thirty games released on the Nintendo Entertainment System
Literature
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Black Box (short story), a short story by Jennifer Egan
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Black Box (novel), by Israeli writer Amos Oz
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Black Box (comics) a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe
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Black Box, a novel by Mario Giordano
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Black Box, a memoir by Shiori Itō
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Blackbox (novel) by Nick Walker
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The Black Box (novel) by Michael Connelly
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La boîte noire ("The Black Box"), a Spirou et Fantasio comic album
Music
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Black Box (band), Italian electro-dance music group
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"Black Box" (song), debut single of Australian Idol winner Stan Walker
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A Black Box, an album by Peter Hammill
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, a Wax Tax Box set album
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Black Box (Brown Eyed Girls album), album by South Korean group Brown Eyed Girls
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Black Box (Naked City album), compilation album by Naked City
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, a Black Sabbath album
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The Black Box (album), a box set album by Danish rock band Gasolin'
Other uses
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Black box theater, simple unadorned performance space
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Nuclear football, the briefcase that accompanies the President of the United States and contains nuclear missile launch codes, nicknamed "Black Box"
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Censor bars
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Black box trading or algorithmic trading
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Black Box Corporation, a supplier of computer network hardware based in Mumbai, India and Dallas, Texas
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Black box approach to the function of states in international relations in theories such as realism and neorealism
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BlackBox (radio station), a radio station in Bordeaux, France
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Handcuff cover
See also
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Blackboxing, a social process in science studies
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Black box warning, U.S. warning on a prescription drug
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Black Box Affair, a 1966 Eurospy film
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Box (disambiguation)
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Black body
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Kaaba, a cube-shaped structure of importance to Islam