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Noun: black box  blak bóks
  1. Equipment that records information about the performance of an aircraft during flight
    "Investigators recovered the black box to determine the cause of the plane crash";
    - flight recorder
     
  2. A device or system whose internal workings are hidden or unknown
    "The neural network was treated as a black box"

Derived forms: black boxes

Type of: recorder, recording equipment, recording machine

Encyclopedia: Black box