BLACKBODY RADIATION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The electromagnetic radiation that would be radiated from an ideal black body; the distribution of energy in the radiated spectrum of a black body depends only on temperature and is determined by Planck's radiation law

Synonyms:

black-body radiation; blackbody radiation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("blackbody radiation" is a kind of...):

electromagnetic radiation; electromagnetic wave; nonparticulate radiation (radiation consisting of waves of energy associated with electric and magnetic fields resulting from the acceleration of an electric charge)

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