black boxes

A form of black box — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of black box
verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of black box
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