"purple box" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: purple boxes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} purple box (plural purple boxes)
  1. A device used in phreaking that adds a hold facility to a telephone line. Wikipedia link: gray-box testing, white box (software engineering)
    Sense id: en-purple_box-en-noun-4NcMWT8v Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with redundant wikilinks Coordinate_terms: beige box, black box, blue box, brown box, gray box, green box, orange box, red box, silver box, white box, yellow box

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for purple box meaning in English (1.1kB)

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