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Systems

• Black box
  Black box
  
  Black box may mean:...
  , any component in a system in which only the input and output characteristics are of interest, without regard to its internal mechanism or structure

Transportation

• Black box (transportation)
  Black Box (transportation)
  
  The term black box is a placeholder name used casually, often by journalists, to refer to a collection of several different recording devices used in transportation: the flight recorders in aircraft, the event recorder in railway locomotives, the event data recorder in automobiles and other recording devices in various vehicles....
  , commonly used informal term, a durable onboard data-recording device used in various forms of transport
• Flight data recorder
  Flight data recorder
  
  The flight data recorder is a flight recorder used to record specific aircraft performance parameters. A companion device is the cockpit voice recorder , which records conversation in the cockpit, radio communications between the cockpit crew and others , as well as ambient sounds....
  , crash impact protected device for measuring operational variables during flight often used to assist in crash investigations

Film

• Black Box (film)
  Black Box (film)
  
  Caja negra is an Argentina film, written and directed by Luis Ortega.The picture stars Dolores Fonzi, Eugenia Bassi, and others....
  , Argentine film (Caja Negra)

Music

• Black Box (band)
  Black Box (band)
  
  Black Box was a House music group popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The members of the group included a trio made up of a club DJ , a classically trained clarinet teacher , and a keyboard and electronic music "wiz" ....
  , music group popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s
• Black Box Recorder (band)
  Black Box Recorder (band)
  
  Black Box Recorder are an England indie rock musical ensemble. They debuted in 1998 with England Made Me and followed this up with The Facts of Life , which gave them their first hit record with the single of the same name in April 2000....
  , English pop/indie music group
• Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970-1978)
  Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970-1978)
  
  Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath is a collection of the first eight albums by the heavy metal music band. The set contains the albums recorded with original singer Ozzy Osbourne, who was fired in 1979 after completion of the band's Never Say Die! tour....
  , collection of the albums by the original members of Black Sabbath
• Black Box - Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years
  Black Box - Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years
  
  Black Box - Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years is a box set album compiling songs released on Wax Trax! Records between 1980 and 1993. Black Box commemorates Wax Trax!'s output as an independent record label prior to its purchase by TVT Records....
  , box set album compiling songs released on Wax Trax! Records between 1980 and 1993
• Black Box (album)
  Black Box (album)
  
  Black Box is a compilation album by John Zorn's band Naked City featuring Yamatsuka Eye on vocals. The album is a collects the "hardcore miniatures" from Naked City and Grand Guignol that were originally released on Torture Garden in 1990 and the extended piece Leng Tch'e which was only released in Japan in 1992....
  , compilation album by Naked City
• "Black Box", song by the group Panurge
  Panurge
  
  Panurge is one of the principal characters in the Gargantua and Pantagruel of Rabelais, an exceedingly crafty knave, a libertine, and a coward....
  

Literature

• Black Box (book)
  Black Box (book)
  
  Black Box is a book by Israeli writer Amos Oz. It was first published in Israel in 1986 by Am Oved, and in the US by Harcourt in 1988.The book's plot deals with the tensions resulting from a destroyed marriage....
  , a book by Israeli writer Amos Oz
• Darwin's Black Box
  Darwin's Black Box
  
  Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution is a book written by Michael Behe and published by Free Press in which he introduces his notion of irreducible complexity and claims that its presence in many biochemical systems indicates therefore that they must be the result of intelligent design rather than molecular evoluti...
  , by Michael Behe

Science

• Black box testing
  Black box testing
  
  Black box testing takes an external perspective of the test object to derive test cases. These tests can be functional or non-functional, though usually functional....
  , testing a system without knowledge of its internals
• Black box theory
  Black box theory
  
  In philosophy and science black box theories have been proposed for various fields by various philosophers and scientists. Such a prominent theory is the so called "black box theory of consciousness", which states that the mind is fully understood once the inputs and outputs are well defined, and generally couples this with a radical skeptici...
  , a philosophical theory

Computer Software

• Blackbox
  Blackbox
  
  In Unix computing, Blackbox is a X window manager for the X Window System.Blackbox has specific design goals, and some functionality is provided only through other applications....
  , a window manager that works on X Window System platforms
• BlackBox Component Builder
  BlackBox Component Builder
  
  BlackBox Component Builder is an integrated development environment optimized for component-based software development. It consists of development tools, a library of reusable components, a framework that simplifies the development of robust custom components and applications, and a run-time environment for components....
  , the component-based development environment for Component Pascal
  Component Pascal
  
  Component Pascal is a programming language in the tradition of Niklaus Wirth's Pascal programming language, Modula-2, Oberon programming language....
  

Other

• Black box (phreaking)
  Black box (phreaking)
  
  The black box , sometimes called an Agnew , was a device built by phone phreaks during the 1960s and 1970s in order to defeat long distance phone call toll charges, and specifically to block the supervision signal sent by the receiving telephone handset when the call was answered at the receiving end of the call....
  , device to defeat telephone toll charges
• Black box theater
  Black box theater
  
  The black box theater is a relatively recent innovation, consisting of a simple, somewhat unadorned performance space, usually a large square room with black walls and a flat floor....
  , simple unadorned performance space
• Black box warning
  Black box warning
  
  In the United States, a black box warning is a type of warning that appears on the package insert for prescription drugs that may cause serious Adverse effect s....
  , U.S. warning on a prescription drug
• Black Box Corporation
  Black Box Corporation
  
  Black Box Corporation d/b/a Black Box Network Services NYSE:headquartered in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA....
  , Pennsylvania-based supplier of computer network hardware
• Black Box (game)
  Black Box (game)
  
  Black Box is a game of "hide and seek" for one or two players, which simulates shooting rays into a black box to deduce the locations of atom hidden inside....
  , board and computer game
• Black Box Games
  Black Box Games
  
  EA Black Box is a video game developer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, founded in 1983 by former employees of Radical Entertainment....
  , video game studio bought by Electronic Arts
• Project Blackbox, prototype name for Sun Modular Datacenter
  Sun Modular Datacenter
  
  Sun Modular Datacenter is a portable data center built into a standard 20' shipping container manufactured and marketed by Sun Microsystems. An external chiller and power are required for the operation of a Sun MD....
  
• Black Box (comics)
  Black Box (comics)
  
  Black Box , formerly known as Commcast, is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. He is a Mutant and sometimes acts as a supervillain....
   a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe
• In copyright law, a single-purpose device which allows encrypted satellite television
  Satellite television
  
  Satellite television is television delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by a satellite dish and set-top box. In many areas of the world it provides a wide range of channels and services, often to areas that are not serviced by terrestrial television or cable television providers....
   signals to be viewed without payment
• Black Box, the common name for the tree species Eucalyptus largiflorens
  Eucalyptus largiflorens
  
  Eucalyptus largiflorens, or Black Box, is a species of Eucalyptus which is endemic to Australia. It is a tree grows up to 20 metres in height....
  
• The Black Box (serial)
  The Black Box (serial)
  
  The Black Box is a 1915 in film drama film film serial directed by Otis Turner. This serial is considered to be Lost film....
  , a 1915 film serial
• "Black Box" is one of a number of nicknames for the Nuclear Football
  Nuclear Football
  
  The Nuclear Football is a specially outfitted black briefcase used by the President of the United States of the United States to authorize the use of nuclear weapons....
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See also

• Box (disambiguation)
  Box (disambiguation)
  
  A box is a container or package, often rectangular or cuboidal.Box may also refer to:*Boston Options Exchange, an automated options exchange...