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 plot or secret, devious plan.
A council housing estate.
A systematic plan of future action.
An orderly combination of related parts.
A mathematical structure that enlarges the notion of algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring (e.g. Fermat curves over the integers).
A chart or diagram of a system or object.
Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
To plot, or contrive a plan.
To plan; to contrive.