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[ adjective ] giving off light or heat or radiation

Examples

: "the physical temperature of the emitting material"

Used in print

(Cornell H. Mayer, "Radio Emission of the Moon...)

The use of this concept does not specify the origin of the radiation , and only if the planet really radiates as a black_body , will the apparent black-body temperature correspond to the physical temperature of the emitting material .

Related terms

emit

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