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 procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur.
A written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract.
A serial record of items, systematically arranged.
One of the five divisions into which controlled drugs are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.
An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.
To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
To plan an activity at a specific date or time in the future.
To create a time-schedule.
To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the applicable mental health law.