Definition of scintillation

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NOUN:

The act of scintillating.
A spark; a flash.
Astronomy Rapid variation in the light of a celestial body caused by turbulence in Earth's atmosphere; a twinkling.
Physics A flash of light produced in a phosphor by absorption of an ionizing particle or photon.

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