gray body

American  

noun

Physics.

1. any body that emits radiation at each wavelength in a constant ratio less than unity to that emitted by a black body at the same temperature.

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Example Sentences

Maybe if I just lost myself in the music...Maybe if I ignored the awful, horrible, heavy stuff hovering over me...Maybe, if I just believed...I imagined every note worming its way into his gray body, killing any and all traces of his diabetes.

From Literature

Fisher writes extensively about the bivalve, the joy of consuming it and the actual life of the oyster itself: "Its chilly, delicate gray body slips into a stewpan or under a broiler or alive down a red throat, and it is done. Its life has been thoughtless, but no less full of danger, and now that it is over we are perhaps the better for it."

From Salon

His sharp beak matched the black wingtips on his pearl gray body, and white, spectacle-like eye rings seemed to amplify his diligence.

From New York Times

The image he shot is almost phantasmagorical: the elephant underwater, her legs kicking, her gray body swaddled in blue water, a handler in a red shirt atop her.

From New York Times

The unmanned aircraft, nearly six feet long with a cone-shaped nose and a shiny gray body, had all the external characteristics of a Russian military drone.

From Washington Post