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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:-In science and technology:*Black box theory, a philosophical theory...

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:

In science and technology

  • Black box theory
    Black box theory
    Black box theories are things defined only in terms of their function. The term black box theory is applied to any field, philosophy and science or otherwise where some inquiry or definition is made into the relations between the appearance of something , i.e...

    , a philosophical theory
  • Blackbox
    Blackbox
    In Unix computing, Blackbox is a stacking window manager for the X Window System.Blackbox has specific design goals, and some functionality is provided only through other applications. One example is the bbkeys hotkey application....

    , 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...

    , the component-based development environment for Component Pascal
  • Black Box Corporation
    Black Box Corporation
    Black Box Corporation, d/b/a Black Box Network Services, is headquartered in the Pittsburgh suburb of Lawrence, Pennsylvania, USA. The company is a provider of communications and infrastructure solutions...

    , Pennsylvania-based supplier of computer network hardware
  • Project Blackbox, prototype name for Sun Modular Datacenter
    Sun Modular Datacenter
    Sun Modular Datacenter is a portable data center built into a standard 20-foot intermodal container manufactured and marketed by Sun Microsystems . An external chiller and power are required for the operation of a Sun MD...

  • Black box (phreaking)
    Black box (phreaking)
    The black box , was a small electronic circuit added to a telephone which provided the caller with a free call...

    , device to defeat telephone toll charges
  • 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...

  • An often used synonym for a flight recorder
    Flight recorder
    A flight recorder is an electronic recording device placed in an aircraft for the purpose of facilitating the investigation of an aircraft accident or incident. For this reason, flight recorders are required to be capable of surviving the conditions likely to be encountered in a severe aircraft...


In music

  • Black Box (band)
    Black Box (band)
    Black Box was an Italian 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: 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 band and a DVD. 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 and a DVD of 4 videos...

    , 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 collection of 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...

    , compilation album by Naked City
  • Black Box, song by the group Panurge
    Panurge
    Panurge is one of the principal characters in the Pantagruel of Rabelais, an exceedingly crafty knave, a libertine, and a coward....

  • "Black Box (song)
    Black Box (song)
    "Black Box" is the debut single by season seven winner of Australian Idol, Stan Walker. It was released digitally on 22 November 2009, as the lead single from his debut studio album, Introducing.....

    ", the debut single of Australian Idol winner Stan Walker
  • A Black Box
    A Black Box
    A Black Box is an album by Peter Hammill, originally released on S-Type Records in August 1980.Hammill performed nearly all the instrumentation himself, including the drum parts, a task he had first undertaken on his previous album pH7...

    , an album by Peter Hammill

In entertainment

  • Black Box (film)
    Black Box (film)
    Caja negra or La caja negra is an Argentine film, written and directed by Luis Ortega.The picture stars Dolores Fonzi, Eugenia Bassi, and others.-Plot:The film tells of the relationships in a dysfunctional family....

    , Argentine film (Caja Negra)
  • The Black Box (serial)
    The Black Box (serial)
    The Black Box is a 1915 drama film serial directed by Otis Turner. This serial is considered to be lost.-Cast:* Herbert Rawlinson - Sanford Quest* Ann Little - Lenore MacDougal * William Worthington - Prof...

    , a 1915 film serial
  • 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...

    , by Israeli writer Amos Oz
  • 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 atoms hidden inside. It was created by Eric Solomon. The board game was published by Waddingtons from the mid 1970s and by Parker Brothers in the late 1970s...

    , board and computer game
  • Black Box Games
    Black Box Games
    EA Black Box is a video game developer based in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, founded in 1998 by former employees of Radical Entertainment....

    , video game studio bought by Electronic Arts
  • Black Box (comics)
    Black Box (comics)
    Black Box , formerly known as Commcast, is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. He is a mutant and sometimes acts as a supervillain...

     a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe
  • Black Box (The Outer Limits)
    Black Box (The Outer Limits)
    "Black Box" is an episode of The Outer Limits. It was first broadcast on December 11, 1998, during the fourth season.-Synopsis:A missing package contains powerful secrets, and everyone wants a piece of the action...

    , an episode from the 1995 revival of that TV series
  • La Boîte noire
    La Boîte noire
    La Boîte noire is a 2005 mystery film directed by Richard Berry, written by Richard Berry and Éric Assous, adapted from a novella by Tonino Benacquista, and starring José Garcia and Marion Cotillard.-Plot:...

    , a French film
  • La boîte noire
    La boîte noire
    La boîte noire, by Nic & Cauvin, is the thirtyfirst album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the second of the authors. The story was initially serialised in Spirou, before released as a hardcover album in 1983.-Story:...

    , a Spirou et Fantasio
    Spirou et Fantasio
    Spirou et Fantasio is one of the most popular classic Franco-Belgian comic strips. The series, which has been running since 1938, shares many characteristics with other European humorous adventure comics like Tintin and Asterix...

     comic album.
  • Black Box
    Survival in the Sky
    Survival in the Sky is a series of six one-hour episodes produced by Darlow Smithson Productions for The Learning Channel and Channel 4. Narrated by Will Lyman or Sean Barrett , the series primarily concentrated on commercial aviation accidents and the investigations related to them...

    , a TV series on the investigations of aviation accidents

Other uses

  • Black box (transportation)
    Black Box (transportation)
    The term black box is a placeholder name used casually 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, message case in ships, and other...

    , 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
    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.-History:...

    , 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 effects...

    , U.S. warning on a prescription drug
  • Black Box, common name of 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...

    , a tree native to Australia
  • In copyright law, a single-purpose device which allows encrypted satellite television
    Satellite television
    Satellite television is television programming delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by an outdoor antenna, usually a parabolic mirror generally referred to as a satellite dish, and as far as household usage is concerned, a satellite receiver either in the form of an...

     signals to be viewed without payment
  • "Black Box", a nickname for the Nuclear Football
    Nuclear Football
    The nuclear football is a briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the President of the United States of America to authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed command centers, such as the White House Situation Room...

    , the briefcase that accompanies the President of the United States and contains nuclear missile launch codes
  • Black box, a radionics
    Radionics
    Radionics is the use of blood, hair, a signature, or other substances unique to the person as a focus to supposedly heal a patient from afar. The concept behind radionics originated in the early 1900s with Albert Abrams , who became a millionaire by leasing radionic machines which he designed...

    device which supposedly diagnoses illness
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