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Scintillation

noun

(physics) a flash of light that is produced in a phosphor when it absorbs a photon or ionizing particle.

A rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash. Synonyms: sparkling, twinkle.

A brilliant display of wit.

The quality of shining with a bright reflected light. Synonyms: glisten, glister, glitter, sparkle.

The twinkling of the stars caused when changes in the density of the earth's atmosphere produce uneven refraction of starlight.

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"Scintillation" Quotes from Famous Books

... I have not much of interest for you. It is a fine thing to see one's trees and things growing, but not so much to tell of. I have been a week in the country now, and am writing at this moment amidst such a scintillation of fireflies and chorus of frogs as a cockney would cross the Atlantic to enjoy. During the past winter I have done nothing but lecture, having delivered between seventy and eighty all round the country from Maine to western New York, and even confronted the critical terrors of the great city ...

— Authors and Friends • Annie Fields

... yellowish sheen—like gold or burnished brass—but the scintillation of the sun's rays, as they glanced from its surface, hindered the spectators from making out its shape, or being able to say ...

— The Cliff Climbers - A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" • Captain Mayne Reid

... was like a child in the hands of his wife, a state of affairs to which soldiers are accustomed, because in them lies the strength and is found all the dull carnality of matter; while, on the contrary, in woman is a subtle spirit and a scintillation of perfumed flame that lights up paradise and dazzles the male. This is the reason that certain women govern their husbands, because mind ...

— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac

... observed that it would be perceptibly weakened for a few minutes, until it again suddenly shone forth in full brilliancy. In some few instances i have thought that i could perceive — not exactly a reddish coloration, nor the lower portion darkened in an arc-like form, nor even a scintillation, as mairan affirms he has observed — but a kind of flickering ...

— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt

... the dull disciple who has learned his lessons so imperfectly that he has never got beyond his school-books. Full of fragmentary rules, he has perceived the principle of none of them. The child draws near to him with some outburst of unusual feeling, some scintillation of a lively hope, some wide-reaching imagination that draws into the circle of religious theory the world of nature, and the yet wider world of humanity, for to the child the doings of the Father ...

— Unspoken Sermons - Series I., II., and II. • George MacDonald

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