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Definition of Full radiator
1. Noun. A hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it. "A black body maintained at a constant temperature is a full radiator at that temperature because the radiation reaching and leaving it must be in equilibrium"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Full Radiator
Literary usage of Full radiator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Investigations of Infra-red Spectra by William Weber Coblentz (1908)
"which he obtained by making a direct comparison of the radiation from the sun
with that from a "full radiator" s at a known temperature. ..."
2. Outlines of Applied Optics by Perley Gilman Nutting (1912)
"Of the artificial sources suitable for reference, the full radiator or black ...
The energy radiated by such a full radiator is distributed throughout the ..."
3. A Text-book of Physics: Including a Collection of Examples and Questions by William Watson (1920)
"If we assume that the sun is a full radiator, we can, from the energy received
at the earth, calculate the temperature of the sun's surface. ..."
4. Bulletin by Mount Weather Observatory, Bluemont, Va, Bluemont Mount Weather Observatory, Va, United States Weather Bureau (1910)
"... full radiator, or black surface, and Rt its radiation in a direction 0 degrees
from the normal. The solid angle filled by the radiation being the same ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... full stream of radiation in such an enclosure, or the radiation emitted by an
ideal black body or full radiator, isa function of the temperature only. ..."
6. A Textbook of Physics by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1906)
"These constants may be taken as having nearly the following values* : — If R, is
the energy emitted per second per square cm. from a full radiator at ..."
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