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black box
noun- in an aeroplane, the container and equipment used for the automatic recording of all flight data and cockpit conversation UK, 1964
A specialised use of Royal Air Force slang. - — Lewis Poteet and Martin Stone, Plane Talk, p. 31, 1997
- the notional container in which proprietary technical information is secured in dealings over industrial property rights US
- In dealing with the sale or purchase of industrial property rights, classified technical information can be often dealt with as proprietary knowledge without revealing the confidential know-how of what is in the black box. — Robert Kirk Mueller, Buzzwords, p. 47, 1974
- any highly technical piece of electronics equipment US, 1945
- I think now of our first celestial computer, known commonly as the Black Box. It was a gadget with counters on it, and cranks which you turned. — Curtis E. LeMay with MacKinlay Knator, Mission with LeMay, p. 98, 1965
- a hearse UK
- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 152, 1981
- a linear amplifier for a citizens’ band radio US
Sometimes embellished as “little black box”. - — Porter Bibb, CB Bible, p. 98, 1976
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