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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The electromagnetic radiation given off by a theoretical blackbody, its average frequency increasing as the blackbody's temperature increases.
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- noun 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
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