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victoriousvocabulary: SCINTILLATION[noun]1. the act of scintillating; sparkling; to twinkle, as the stars.2. a spark or flash.3. Astronomy: the twinkling or tremulous effect of the light of the stars.4. 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.5. Physics: a) a flash of light from the ionisation of a phosphor struck by an energetic photon or particle. b) random fluctuation of the amplitude, phase, or polarization of an electromagnetic wave.Etymology: Latin scintillātus, past participle of scintillāre, “to send out sparks, flash”.[Jimmy Lawlor] -- source link