Scintillation

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  • noun. The act of scintillating.
  • noun. A spark; a flash.
  • noun. Rapid variation in the light of a celestial body caused by turbulence in Earth's atmosphere; a twinkling.
  • noun. A flash of light produced in a phosphor by absorption of an ionizing particle or photon.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of scintillating, or emitting sparks or spark-like flashes of light; the act of sparkling.
  • noun. A flash; a spark.
  • noun. Specifically, the twinkling or tremulous motion of the light of the larger fixed stars.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of scintillating.
  • noun. A spark or flash emitted in scintillating.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A flash of light; a spark
  • noun. The twinkling of a star caused by turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere
  • noun. The flash of light produced by a phosphor when it absorbs ionizing radiation
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash
  • noun. (physics) a flash of light that is produced in a phosphor when it absorbs a photon or ionizing particle
  • noun. the quality of shining with a bright reflected light
  • noun. a brilliant display of wit
  • noun. the twinkling of the stars caused when changes in the density of the earth's atmosphere produce uneven refraction of starlight