Usually means: Absorbs and emits all radiation.
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  1. black body: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. black body: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Black-body, Black body: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (black body)

noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, body.
noun:  (physics) Alternative form of blackbody [(physics) a theoretical body, approximated by a hole in a hollow black sphere, that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation and reflects none; it has a characteristic emission spectrum]

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