Usually means: Unit measuring perceived sound loudness.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. phon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. phon-: Merriam-Webster
  3. phon, phon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. phon, phon-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. phon, phon, phon-: Collins English Dictionary
  6. phon: Vocabulary.com
  7. Phon, phon: Wordnik
  8. PHON, phon, phon-: Wiktionary
  9. phon, phon-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. phon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. phon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. phon, phon, phon-: Dictionary.com
  13. Phon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. phon: Rhymezone
  15. phon, phon-: MyWord.info
  16. phon: FreeDictionary.org
  17. phon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. phon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. phon, phon, phon-: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. phon-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. phon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. phon(o)-, phon-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Phon: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PHON: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See phoning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (PHON)

noun:  (acoustics) A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured.
noun:  (Australian politics) Initialism of Pauline Hanson's One Nation.

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