Black box is technical jargon for a device or system or object when it is viewed primarily in terms of its input and output characteristics. Almost anything might occasionally be referred to as a black box: a transistor, an algorithm, the Internet. Some other common uses are: Black box File links The following pages link to this file: Black box ... Black box File links The following pages link to this file: Black box ... Jargon is a type of terminology which is used in conjunction with a specific activity, e. ... Assorted transistors The transistor is a solid state semiconductor device that can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation and many other functions. ... Flowcharts are often used to represent algorithms. ...

• 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.
• In computing in general, a black box program is one where the user cannot see its inner workings (perhaps because it is a closed source program)
• In physics, a black box is a system whose internal structure is unknown, or need not be considered for a particular purpose. Sometimes black box is used as a synonym for black body.
• In copyright law, a single-purpose device which decrypts satellite television signals without authorization, which removes Macrovision coding, or which otherwise serves to defeat a broadcaster's or copyright holder's policy is sometimes known as a black box; the purpose of the anticircumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was sometimes characterized as removing these black boxes from the market.
• In mathematical modelling, a limiting case.
• In philosophy and psychology, the school of behaviorism sees the human mind as a black box; see black box theory.

The opposite of a black box, a system where the innards are available for inspection (such as a free software/open source program) is sometimes known as a white box, a glass box, or a clear box. The field of electronics is the study and use of systems that operate by controlling the flow of electrons (or other charge carriers) in devices such as thermionic valves and semiconductors. ... A line-replaceable unit (LRU) is a black box of electronics, such as a radio or other auxiliary equipment for a complex engineered system like an airplane or ship. ... HTML and JavaScript in an IDE that uses color coding to highlight various keywords and help the developer see the function of each piece of code. ... Software engineering (SE) is the profession of people who create and maintain software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering, application domains and other fields. ... Black box testing, concrete box or functional testing is used in computer programming, software engineering and software testing to check that the outputs of a program, given certain inputs, conform to the functional specification of the program. ... Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a science that deals with the original sense of computing mathematical calculations. ... The text below is generated by a template, which has been proposed for deletion. ... Physics (from the Greek, φυσικός (physikos), natural, and φύσις (physis), nature) is the science of the natural world, which deals with the fundamental constituents of the universe, the forces they exert on one another, and the results of these forces. ... As the temperature decreases, the peak of the black body radiation curve moves to lower intensities and longer wavelengths. ... The copyright symbol is used to give notice that a work is covered by copyright. ... Artists impression of a Boeing 601 satellite, as configured for digital television transmission by SES Astra Satellite television is television delivered by way of communications satellites, as compared to conventional terrestrial television and cable television. ... Macrovision is a company that creates electronic copy prevention schemes, established in 1983. ... The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a controversial United States copyright law. ... A mathematical model is an abstract model that uses mathematical language to describe the behaviour of a system. ... Philosopher in Meditation (detail), by Rembrandt. ... Psychology (Gk: psyche, soul or mind + logos, speech) is an academic and applied field involving the study of the mind, brain, and behavior, both human and nonhuman. ... Behaviorism or behaviourism (not to be confused with behavioralism in political science) is an approach to psychology based on the proposition that behavior can be researched scientifically without recourse to inner mental states. ... The term black box theory is used in philosophy and in mathematics. ... This article is about Free Software as defined by the sociopolitical Free Software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... Open source software refers to computer software available with its source code and under an open source license. ... In software engineering, white box, in contrast to a black box, is a subsystem whose internals are visible to view, but usually cannot be altered. ...