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grey body

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noun

  1. physics a body that emits radiation in constant proportion to the corresponding black-body radiation

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The cat's tattoos decorate both sides of its slender, grey body, and include the phrase "Made in Mexico."

From Reuters Feb. 23, 2023

On every side he was surrounded—the world had vanished, only the thin grey body of his dog, panting at his side, could be dimly seen.

From The Prelude to Adventure by Walpole, Hugh, Sir

My personal choice for color is the natural brownish grey body hair from either the deer, reindeer, or caribou.

From How to Tie Flies by Gregg, Ellery Clark

Below the houses a tangled mass of bushes and small trees lay black in the moonlight, and in the distance the grey body of the river showed faint and far away.

From Windy McPherson's Son by Anderson, Sherwood

This ware is of a highly refractory white or grey body of intense hardness, glazed by the introduction of salt into the kiln when the highest temperature was reached.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

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