‘The aircraft's black boxes could also hold the key to the accident.’
‘Both black boxes from the hijacked aircraft have also been recovered.’
‘The data recorder was one of the two black boxes aboard the flight.’
‘They have found the so-called black boxes, or the flight data recorders, which are very crucial.’
‘Remember, these dogs are used as ‘sniffer’ dogs for illegal drugs and to find black boxes after airline crashes.’
1.1informal A complex system or device whose internal workings are hidden or not readily understood.
‘Effectively a complex set of manual operations is automated, creating a black box for the end user with no wish to explore further.’
‘Can't we just piece together all the black boxes knowing only their input/output specifications and achieve a working solution?’
‘Even the best managers and most sophisticated thinkers start with the assumption that innovation is a mysterious black box.’
‘Next, I needed to take the audio output from the camera and connect it to a mysterious black box that processes time code.’
‘Specialized diagnostic equipment is a computerized black box these days.’
‘And it makes everyone involved hold their breath, because it's a complete black box.’
‘Unfortunately, these days universities turn out users who employ codes as black boxes but do not understand what they do or when their results can be trusted.’
‘Instead, they decided to regard all search engines as black boxes, and concentrate on creating the most relevant content.’
‘Perhaps draw him as a little black box of secrets, I mean he sure is mysterious enough to be a black box.’
‘User stupidity will probably one day bring the black box to cars.’
‘The black box determines how we translate complex information into decisions.’
‘If American radiologists were put out of business because doctors could obtain MRI analysis more cheaply by using the imported Asian black boxes, then no tariff protection would be warranted.’
‘So that's imagining the brain as something like a computer with inputs and outputs and a black box in between.’
‘At your end, you will need a desktop computer or a networked group of desktop computers that can link to the black box.’
‘We've taken an industry that basically operates in a black box, and we've created transparency.’
‘Computer games are a sort of a black box, where players enter some input and get some output in return, based on rules they can't be sure of.’
‘Well of course things like motor cars are black boxes, they're virtually computers on wheels.’
‘I insert a small black box of electronics which takes the place of a key, press the starter button, and off we go.’
‘As a magical black box, computers were portrayed as a source of hope amidst fear.’
‘The current choice of TV addicts is still TiVo, the magic black box that records shows onto a hard drive.’
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