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.
Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
The combination of process and actuator.
A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
To set up; to install; to instate.
To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
To furnish or supply with plants.
To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
To place in the ground.