black-body radiation

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsblackbody radiation

   Broaderelectromagnetic radiation

Questions about black-body radiation

What does black-body radiation mean?

black-body radiation means "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".

What is another word for black-body radiation?

Close synonyms include blackbody radiation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black-body radiation a common word?

black-body radiation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.