Black box

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
• 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

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

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
• La Boîte noire, a French film
• La boîte noire. a Spirou et Fantasio comic album.

Other uses

• Black box (transportation), commonly used informal term, a durable onboard data-recording device used in various forms of transport
• Black box theater, simple unadorned performance space
• Black box warning, U.S. warning on a prescription drug
• 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
• Black Box (The Outer Limits)

See also

• Box (disambiguation)
• The Black Box (disambiguation)

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