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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
Examples
- scrutinizing all utterances recorded by the black box
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: event recorder, opaque box, trip recorder
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: box
Any similar device on motor vehicles, such as rail event recorders and ship trip recorders.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: transport
Examples
- the pilothouse's analogue of an airliner's black box
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A theoretical construct or device with known input and output characteristics but unknown method of operation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The authentication method and its details can be treated as a black box for purposes of this security architecture overview.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A device used in phreaking that prevents the calling party from being billed for the call placed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A type of theater characterized by a lack of decoration or complex mechanisms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive
Topics: broadcasting, drama, dramaturgy, entertainment, film, lifestyle, media, television, theater
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Synonym of football (“the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President”)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: football
Antonyms: none provided
To focus on the inputs and outputs without worrying about the internal complexity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: web development
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
equipment that records information about the performance of an aircraft during flight
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: recorder, recording equipment, recording machine
* Since c. 1945 in both main senses (that is, event recorders and objects with unknown innards), which are historically related to each other; for details, see black box § History and flight recorder § Terminology. * (a type of theater): Such theaters are often painted black.
Across languages
Translations
71 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Antillean Creole:
bwèt nwè
— recorders in an aircraft
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Arabic:
صُنْدُوق أَسْوَد
(ṣundūq ʔaswad)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Belarusian:
чо́рная скры́ня
(čórnaja skrýnja)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Bulgarian:
че́рна кути́я
(čérna kutíja)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Carpathian Rusyn:
чо́рна скри́нька
(čórna skrýnʹka)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Catalan:
caixa negra
— recorders in an aircraft
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Chinese Mandarin:
黑箱
(hēixiāng)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Chinese Mandarin:
黑匣子
(hēixiázi)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Chinese Mandarin:
黑盒子
(hēihézi)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Czech:
černá skříňka
— recorders in an aircraft
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Dutch:
zwarte doos
— recorders in an aircraft
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Estonian:
must kast
— recorders in an aircraft
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Finnish:
musta laatikko
— recorders in an aircraft
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French:
boîte noire
— recorders in an aircraft
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German:
Flugschreiber
— recorders in an aircraft
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German:
Blackbox
— recorders in an aircraft
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Hebrew:
קופסה שחורה
(kufsá sh'khorá)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Hindi:
ब्लैक बॉक्स
(blaik bŏks)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Hungarian:
feketedoboz
— recorders in an aircraft
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Indonesian:
kotak hitam
— recorders in an aircraft
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Irish:
bosca dubh
— recorders in an aircraft
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Italian:
scatola nera
— recorders in an aircraft
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Italian:
registratore di volo
— recorders in an aircraft
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Japanese:
ブラックボックス
(burakku bokkusu)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Korean:
블랙박스
(beullaekbakseu)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Latvian:
melnā kaste
— recorders in an aircraft
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Macedonian:
цр́на ку́тија
(cŕna kútija)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Malay:
kotak hitam
— recorders in an aircraft
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Norwegian Bokmål:
svart boks
— recorders in an aircraft
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
svart boks
— recorders in an aircraft
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Persian:
جعبه سیاه
(ja'be-ye siyâh)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Polish:
czarna skrzynka
— recorders in an aircraft
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Portuguese:
caixa-preta
— recorders in an aircraft
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Portuguese:
caixa-negra
— recorders in an aircraft
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Romanian:
cutie neagră
— recorders in an aircraft
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Romanian:
înregistrător de zbor
— recorders in an aircraft
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Russian:
чёрный я́щик
(čórnyj jáščik)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Serbo-Croatian:
црна кутија
— recorders in an aircraft
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Serbo-Croatian:
crna kutija
— recorders in an aircraft
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Slovak:
čierna skrinka
— recorders in an aircraft
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Slovene:
črna škatla
— recorders in an aircraft
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Spanish:
caja negra
— recorders in an aircraft
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Swedish:
svart låda
— recorders in an aircraft
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Tamil:
கருப்புப்பெட்டி
(karuppuppeṭṭi)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Tamil:
கரும்பெட்டி
(karumpeṭṭi)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Thai:
กล่องดํา
(glɔ̀ng-dam)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Turkish:
kara kutu
— recorders in an aircraft
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Ukrainian:
чо́рний я́щик
(čórnyj jáščyk)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Ukrainian:
чо́рна скри́нька
(čórna skrýnʹka)
— recorders in an aircraft
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Vietnamese:
hộp đen
— recorders in an aircraft
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Welsh:
blwch du
— recorders in an aircraft
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Arabic:
صُنْدُوق أَسْوَد
(ṣundūq ʔaswad)
— theoretical construct or device
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Catalan:
caixa negra
— theoretical construct or device
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Chinese Mandarin:
黑箱
(hēixiāng)
— theoretical construct or device
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Chinese Mandarin:
黑盒
(hēihé)
— theoretical construct or device
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Czech:
černá skříňka
— theoretical construct or device
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Finnish:
musta laatikko
— theoretical construct or device
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French:
boîte noire
— theoretical construct or device
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German:
Blackbox
— theoretical construct or device
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Hebrew:
קופסה שחורה
(kufsá sh'khorá)
— theoretical construct or device
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Irish:
bosca dubh
— theoretical construct or device
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Italian:
scatola nera
— theoretical construct or device
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Japanese:
ブラックボックス
(burakku bokkusu)
— theoretical construct or device
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Korean:
블랙박스
(beullaekbakseu)
— theoretical construct or device
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Polish:
czarna skrzynka
— theoretical construct or device
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Portuguese:
caixa-preta
— theoretical construct or device
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Portuguese:
caixa-negra
— theoretical construct or device
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Romanian:
cutie neagră
— theoretical construct or device
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Russian:
чёрный я́щик
(čórnyj jáščik)
— theoretical construct or device
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Spanish:
caja negra
— theoretical construct or device
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Turkish:
karanlık kutu
— theoretical construct or device
