A theoretical construct or device with known input and output characteristics but unknown method of operation.
A flight recorder; the brightly colored cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders in an aircraft designed to aid in determining the cause of an accident.
A device used in phreaking that prevents the calling party from being billed for the call placed.
A type of theater characterized by a lack of decoration or complex mechanisms.
Any similar device on motor vehicles, such as rail event recorders and ship trip recorders.
To focus on the inputs and outputs without worrying about the internal complexity.
A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
An act of fetching data.
The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).
The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
Minced oath for fuck.
To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
To reduce; to throw.
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.