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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gray body

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 ● Dec. 3, 2022

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 ● Feb. 11, 2022

In 2010, Prum and his colleagues revealed that a crow-size dinosaur called Anchiornis huxleyi was beautifully adorned: gray body plumage, an auburn mohawk and long white limb feathers with black spangles.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2019

Partly because the matte gray body with blue accents looks like it maybe fell from a spaceship or was lifted from the set of Battlestar Galactica.

From The Verge ● Jul. 30, 2014

I tell David about the fox I saw with a gray body and a red head, and he tells me about his aunt’s Siamese cat that yowls just for the pure joy of making noise.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor