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• In electronics, a sealed piece of replaceable equipment—see line-replaceable unit.
• In computer programming and software engineering, black box testing is used to check that the output of a program is as expected given certain inputs. The term black box is used because the actual program being executed is not examined.
• A limiting case in mathematical modelling.
• For applications in philosophy and psychology, see black box theory and behaviorism.

The opposite of black box has been called white box, although transparent box would be more to the point.

The term black box has the following more specific senses:

• In aircraft, the flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders, that record aircraft and pilot behavior in order to analyze accidents are called black boxes by the news media. (Even though they are now bright orange in colour, they were black when originally introduced.)
• Black Box is a board and computer gameA computer game is any sort of game that is played using a computer. General Although often associated, computer games are not necessarily video games although all but the earliest video games (such as Pong, which used dedicated analogue circuitry) are co.
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• In literatureLiterature is literally "an acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary; the term has, however, generally come to identify a collection of texts. The word "literature" spelled with a lower-case "l" can refer to, Black Box is a bookA book is a collection of leaves of paper, parchment or other material, bound together along one edge within covers. A book is also a literary work or a main division of such a work. A book produced in electronic format is known as an e-book. In library a by Israeli writer Amos Oz.
• In phone phreaking, the black box was a device built by phone phreaks during the 1960s and 1970s to defeat toll charges.
• A black box theater is a simple, somewhat unadorned performance space, usually a large square room with black walls and a flat floor.
• Blackbox is a window manager that works on X Window System platforms.