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I think that the definition of body size here may be incorrect. It is defined here has the space between the lowest descender and tallest ascender, but typography sites I have consulted say that the definition is the same as the old definition: an arbitrary reference space for the design and sizing of the font. I suspect that the definition giving on the wiki page is misleading, since it suggests that body size actually is linked to the size of the glyphs.

Here are two references:

https://www.monotype.com/jp/studio/typography-terms

Body.

Originally the physical block on which each metal character sat, in digital type it is the imaginary area that encompasses each character in a font. The height of the body equals the point size

https://www.onlineprinters.co.uk/magazine/font-sizes/

Fortunately, in our modern times we don’t have to carry around type cases anymore. In the age of digital type, we no longer work with lead type. But the body height is still an important reference measure in font design. After all, when you enter a 12 pt font size in InDesign, you define the height of a glyph’s bounding box which corresponds to the height of the metal body the type was cast on in the early days.