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BLACK BOX
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Dictionary entry overview: What does black box mean?
• BLACK BOX (noun)
The noun BLACK BOX has 1 sense:
1. equipment that records information about the performance of an aircraft during flight
Familiarity information: BLACK BOX used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Equipment that records information about the performance of an aircraft during flight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("black box" is a kind of...):
recorder; recording equipment; recording machine (equipment for making records)
Context examples
“You see that,” said he, pointing to a big black box at the end of his bed.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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