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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

... Nothing here is under lock and key. Nothing bears the grim warning over the bolted door, "No admittance here except on business!"—meaning by business, exclusively and sharply, the buying of certain wares of the establishment at a good round profit to the manufacturer, without carrying away a single scintillation or suggestion of his skill. If he has invented or adopted machinery or a process of labor which enables him to turn out cheap muslin at three farthings' less cost per yard than his neighbors can make it, he seals up the secret from them with the keenest vigilance. ...

— A Walk from London to John O'Groat's • Elihu Burritt

... They observe other scintillation besides that caused by the Condor's keel. There are broad splatches of it all over the surface of the sea, with here and there elongated sillons, seemingly made by some creatures in motion, swimming parallel to the ship's course, and ...

— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid

... thorns under a pot; and the epigram, not yet a mechanical appliance by which the dull may achieve a semblance of wit, gave sprightliness to the small talk of the urbane. It is sad that I can remember nothing of all this scintillation. But I think the conversation never settled down so comfortably as when it turned to the details of the trade which was the other side of the art we practised. When we had done discussing the merits of the latest book, it was natural to wonder how many copies had been sold, ...

— The Moon and Sixpence • W. Somerset Maugham

... companion, lighting you on your way with injurious gleams (as that dreadful figure in Dante, who lanterns his path by the glaring eyes of his own truncated head); and when it ceases to become merely the casual scintillation, the flitting ignus fatuus of a summer evening—then only is wit to be condemned. Often, for mine own poor part in this most mirthful ...

— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... I might have locked the door before giving her the key, but I could not do it even in her approach to wildness. I hate deception as devoutly as she disguises. She thanked me for my compliance, and said, with a scintillation ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862 • Various

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