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.
A theoretical construct or device with known input and output characteristics but unknown method of operation.
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.
An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
American and Canadian football, particularly when used to distinguish from other codes of football.
A raised framework from which lighting is suspended.
The field on which American football is played.
An iron rack or grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals.
An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire.
Any object resembling the rack or grate.
To mark or cover with lines; to crisscross.
To purchase land so that the remaining adjacent sections are smaller than the minimum area purchasable as freehold, thus excluding potential freeholders.