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Webster 1913 Edition
Phosphor
1.
Phosphorus.
[Obs.]
Addison.
2.
The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; Lucifer.
[Poetic and Rare]
Pope.
Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Phosphor
PHOS'PHOR
,Noun.
The morning star or Lucifer; Venus, when it precedes the sun and shines in the morning. In this sense, it is also written Phosphorus.
Definition 2024
Phosphor
Phosphor
See also: phosphor
English
Proper noun
Phosphor
- Alternative spelling of Phosphorus (“the planet Venus, as the morning star”)
- 1960, Barth, John, The Sot-Weed Factor, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, OCLC 1432878, page 518:
- Anna likened you to Phosphor, the morning star, and herself to Hesper, the mortal star of evening, and when I told her those twin stars were one and the same, and not a star at all but the planet Venus, […]
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:Phosphor.
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German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɔsfoɐ/
Noun
Phosphor m (genitive Phosphors, no plural)
Related terms
- phosphoreszieren
Coordinate terms
phosphor
phosphor
See also: Phosphor
English
Noun
phosphor (plural phosphors)
- (chemistry) Any of various compounds of transition metals or of rare earths that exhibit phosphorescence.
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