black box
A custom-made electronic device, such as a protocol converter or encryption system. Yesterday's black boxes often become today's off-the-shelf products. See Black Box Corporation.
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| A black box does not have to look like a box. It can be any contraption that is custom made for an application. |
black box
1. a self-contained unit in an electronic or computer system whose circuitry need not be known to understand its function
2. an informal name for flight recorder
black box [′blak ‚bäks]
(engineering)
Any component, usually electronic and having known input and output, that can be readily inserted into or removed from a specific place in a larger system without knowledge of the component's detailed internal structure.
| (jargon) | black box - An abstraction of a device or system in which only
its externally visible behaviour is considered and not its
implementation or "inner workings". See also functional testing. |
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