black box

1. (informal)A flight recorder; the brightly colored cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders in an aircraft designed to aid in determining the cause of an accident.

   scrutinizing all utterances recorded by the black box

   Flugschreiber, Blackbox

   чёрный я́щикčórnyj jáščik

   чо́рний я́щикčórnyj jáščyk, чо́рна скри́нькаčórna skrýnʹka

2. (broadly)Any similar device on motor vehicles, such as rail event recorders and ship trip recorders.

   the pilothouse's analogue of an airliner's black box

3. A theoretical construct or device with known input and output characteristics but unknown method of operation.

   The authentication method and its details can be treated as a black box for purposes of this security architecture overview.

   Blackbox

   чёрный я́щикčórnyj jáščik

4. A device used in phreaking that prevents the calling party from being billed for the call placed.

5. (attributive)A type of theater characterized by a lack of decoration or complex mechanisms.

6. Synonym of football (“the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President”)

1. What's in that a big black box?

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2. The black box is not actually black.

   ruЧерный ящик на самом деле не черный.

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3. There is much sugar in this black box.

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4. They found the black box of the aircraft.

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5. There is lots of sugar in the black box.

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