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.
The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and connected by a copula.
An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.
In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
The terms of a transaction offered.
An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
An idea or a plan offered.
A complete sentence.
The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).
To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved).