Usually means: Material that emits light when energized.
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  1. phosphor: Merriam-Webster
  2. phosphor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. phosphor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. phosphor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. phosphor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Phosphor, phosphor: Wordnik
  7. Phosphor, phosphor: Wiktionary
  8. phosphor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. phosphor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. phosphor: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. phosphor, phosphor-: Dictionary.com
  12. Phosphor (Unheilig), Phosphor (album), Phosphor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Phosphor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. phosphor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Phosphor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. phosphor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. phosphor, phosphor-: MyWord.info
  18. phosphor: FreeDictionary.org
  19. phosphor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. phosphor: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. phosphor-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phosphor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. phosphor: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. phosphor-: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Phosphor: WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements
  2. Accelerator Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phosphor: Electronics

Definitions from Wiktionary (Phosphor)

noun:  (chemistry) Any of various compounds of transition metals or of rare earths that exhibit phosphorescence.
noun:  (chemistry, obsolete) Phosphorus.
noun:  (proper noun, obsolete) The planet Venus, when appearing as a morning star
noun:  Alternative spelling of Phosphorus (“the planet Venus, as the morning star”) [A name sometimes used for Hesperus, the personification in Greek mythology of the planet Venus.]

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