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Scintillation   Listen
noun
Scintillation  n.  
1.
The act of scintillating.
2.
A spark or flash emitted in scintillating. "These scintillations are... the inflammable effluences discharged from the bodies collided."





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"Scintillation" Quotes from Famous Books



... with a proffered cup. Not to appear out-classed I replied in a suitable vein, involving the supply of more vessels; whereupon there succeeded many more vessels, called for both singly and in harmonious unison, and the reappearance of numerous bright images, accompanied by a universal scintillation of meteor-like iridescence. In this genial and greatly-enlarged spirit we returned affably together to the hall, and entered unperceived at the moment when the one who made the announcements was crying aloud, "According to the programme the next item should have been a Chinese ...
— The Mirror of Kong Ho • Ernest Bramah


Words linked to "Scintillation" :   visible radiation, scintillate, alteration, glitter, glisten, glister, visible light, light, brilliance, modification, physics, change, sparkling, brightness


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