Black box (disambiguation)

A black box is a device, object, or system whose inner workings are unknown; only the "stimuli inputs" and "output reactions" are known characteristics.

Black box may also refer to:

Science and technology

Transportation

Computing

  • Black box theory, a systems engineering theory for black boxes
  • Black-box testing, a form of software testing that involves adjusting inputs to an application without reference to the source code of the application
  • Blackbox, a window manager that works on X Window System platforms
  • BlackBox Component Builder, software development environment for Component Pascal
  • Sun Modular Datacenter, prototype name Project Blackbox

Medicine

  • Any of a number of devices developed and sold by Albert Abrams, based on the pseudo-science of radionics
  • Black box warning, a type of warning that may be applied to medicines in the United States

Film and television

Games

Literature

Music

Other uses

  • Black box (fiction), a fiction trope
  • Black box art museum, a type of museum design for modern artworks
  • Black box theater, simple unadorned performance space
  • Nuclear football, the briefcase that accompanies the President of the United States and contains nuclear missile launch codes, nicknamed "Black Box"
  • Censor bars
  • Black box trading or algorithmic trading
  • Black Box Corporation, a supplier of computer network hardware based in Pennsylvania, US
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