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black box n
1. (Electronics) a self-contained unit in an electronic or computer system whose circuitry need not be known to understand its function 2. (Engineering / Aeronautics) an informal name for flight recorder ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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And presently as he thought there recurred to his memory the little black box which lay hidden in a secret receptacle beneath a false top upon the table where his hand rested. Karnegie (who had cast the eye of a landlord on the black box in the passage) announced that one "Mrs. And all the time, I sat within a few feet of Wingrave, and I knew that in the black box before him were burning love letters from this woman, to the man whose code of honor would ever have protected her husband from disgrace; and I knew that I was listening to the thing which you, Aynesworth, and many of your fellow story writers, have so wisely and so ignorantly dilated upon--the vengeance of a woman denied. |
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