Usually means: Absorbs and emits all radiation.
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  1. blackbody: Merriam-Webster
  2. blackbody: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. blackbody: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. blackbody: Wiktionary
  7. blackbody: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  16. blackbody: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Blackbody: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Blackbody: Extragalactic Astronomy

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Definitions from Wiktionary (blackbody)

▸ noun:  (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

Similar:
full radiator, black body, graybody, greybody, color temperature, photon sphere, absorbtance, boson star, white hole, hohlraum, more...

Opposite:
whitebody, reflector

Types:
greybody, Planck's law, Wien's law, more...

Phrases:
blackbody radiation, blackbody spectrum, blackbody temperature, blackbody function, more...

Adjectives:
ideal, perfect, true, non, equivalent, theoretical, board, hot, simple, temperature, spherical

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Similar:
full radiator, black body, graybody, greybody, color temperature, photon sphere, absorbtance, boson star, white hole, hohlraum, more...

Opposite:
whitebody, reflector

Types:
greybody, Planck's law, Wien's law, more...

Phrases:
blackbody radiation, blackbody spectrum, blackbody temperature, blackbody function, more...

Adjectives:
ideal, perfect, true, non, equivalent, theoretical, board, hot, simple, temperature, spherical



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