blackbody
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blackbody (plural blackbodies)
- (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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an idealized object that absorbs all electromagnetic radiation that falls on it
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