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CCFL

CCFL is the initialism of cold-cathode fluorescent lamp.

Meaning of cold-cathode fluorescent lamp

Noun

cold-cathode fluorescent lamp (plural cold-cathode fluorescent lamps)

  1. A type of gas discharge lamp that produces light by passing an electric current through mercury vapor inside a glass tube, causing the vapor to emit ultraviolet light, which is then converted to visible light by a phosphor coating on the tube wall.

Forms of CCFL

pluralCCFLs

Questions about CCFL

What is CCFL the initialism of?
CCFL is the initialism of cold-cathode fluorescent lamp.

Words near CCFL in the dictionary

  1. CCE
  2. CCEA
  3. CCed
  4. ccf
  5. CCFC
  6. CCFL
  7. CCFLs
  8. CCG
  9. CCGC
  10. CCGCs
  11. CCGS

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CCFL (page history and authors); cold-cathode fluorescent lamp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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