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scintillation
[ sin-tl-ey-shuhn ]
noun
- the act of scintillating; sparkling.
- a spark or flash.
- Astronomy. the twinkling or tremulous effect of the light of the stars.
- Meteorology. any small-scale twinkling or shimmering of objects that are viewed through the atmosphere, caused by an interception of the observer's line of view by inhomogeneities in the atmospheric refractive index.
- Physics.
- a flash of light from the ionization of a phosphor struck by an energetic photon or particle.
- random fluctuation of the amplitude, phase, or polarization of an electromagnetic wave.
- (on a radar display) a slight, rapid shifting of a spot of light or the image of an object about its mean position.
scintillation
/ ËŒ²õɪ²Ô³Ùɪˈ±ô±ðɪʃə²Ô /
noun
- the act of scintillating
- a spark or flash
- the twinkling of stars or radio sources, caused by rapid changes in the density of the earth's atmosphere, the interplanetary medium, or the interstellar medium, producing uneven refraction of starlight
- physics a flash of light produced when a material scintillates
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of scintillation1
Example Sentences
The team measured scintillation bandwidths for 23 pulsars, including new data for six pulsars not previously studied.
With each technological shift, the scintillation of new possibilities meets the tug of obsolescence.
Additionally, organic plastic scintillators suffer from low scintillation yields and low particle radiation tolerances due to their low electron density, which hampers their single-proton detection sensitivity.
It will be the largest and most sensitive scintillation detector ever built.
One novel proposal, called THEIA, combines a water-based detector, like Hyper-K, alongside a “scintillation†detector that is more akin to DUNE—to reap the benefits of both approaches.
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