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fluorescent screen

British  

noun

  1. a transparent screen coated on one side with a phosphor that fluoresces when exposed to X-rays or cathode rays

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There was a Santa Claus, and a coat rack filled with red Santa costumes next to a fluorescent screen illuminating the set.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2023

Below the fluorescent screen, light is gathered by lenses and concave mirror to be focused on 70-mm. film.

From Time Magazine Archive

X rays coming from this tiny pinpoint cast shadows so sharp that they keep their definition even when thrown on a fluorescent screen or photographic film with 1,500 diameters of magnification.

From Time Magazine Archive

The modulated current, fed into a radio transmitter, furnishes the control in the receiving set for another electron beam which recreates the image on a fluorescent screen.

From Time Magazine Archive

It used to be said with great certainty that you cannot see through a brick wall, but by means of X-rays and a fluorescent screen it is now possible to do so.

From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial

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