noun
definition
Any of various compounds of transition metals or of rare earths that exhibit phosphorescence.
definition
Phosphorus.
Examples of phosphors in a Sentence
Plasma Flat screen displays that use heated phosphors to create the pictures.
Three scanning electron beams hit the phosphor screen at slightly different angles to excite different phosphors to produce red, green and blue dots.
Your monitor, for example, creates color by emitting light through red, green, and blue phosphors.
It emitted a much smaller part of its stored energy in the first microsecond than did the blue and green phosphors.
According to Sony, the designers boosted the red and green colors by using improved light-emitting phosphors.
Doing so, especially at high contrast, may damage the tubes or burn a shadow of the image into the tube phosphors.
Plasma televisions display images using phosphors to generate the light to show the picture on the screen.