gray body

noun

, Physics.

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.

As it was, I looked down in the clear water and saw the huge, gleaming, gray body of the whale as he passed.

And she pointed to a gray body disappearing down a hole in one of the corners of the room.

Half an inch more—an inch, two inches, and he gave his big gray body a hunch toward her.

A few pieces of a light-gray body in the Egyptian collection were excellent both in form and in their many-colored decoration.

One of the earlier attempts has a gray body coated with white pipe-clay slip obtained at Bideford in North Devon.

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