Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun black-body_radiation

1 sense of black-body radiation

Sense 1
black-body radiation, blackbody radiation -- (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)
       => 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)