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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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