"brown box" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: brown boxes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} brown box (plural brown boxes)
  1. (telephony) A device used in phreaking that allows the creation of a party line from two telephone lines. Wikipedia link: gray-box testing, white box (software engineering) Categories (topical): Telephony

Inflected forms

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