Usually means: Sun's outer shell, visible light.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word photosphere:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. photosphere: Merriam-Webster
  2. photosphere: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. photosphere: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. photosphere: Collins English Dictionary
  5. photosphere: Vocabulary.com
  6. photosphere: Wordnik
  7. photosphere: Wiktionary
  8. photosphere: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. photosphere: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. photosphere: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. photosphere: Dictionary.com
  12. Photosphere: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Photosphere: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. photosphere: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. photosphere: Rhymezone
  16. Photosphere: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. photosphere: FreeDictionary.org
  18. photosphere: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. photosphere: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. photosphere: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. photosphere: Encyclopedia

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Photosphere: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. Photosphere: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. photosphere: Nine Planets Glossary
  5. PHOTOSPHERE: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (photosphere)

noun:  (astronomy) A visible surface layer of a star, and especially that of a sun.

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