scintillation

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Recent Examples of scintillation The scintillation pattern indicates that the interstellar material of the source galaxy is acting a bit like a lens that is resolving the event. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2025 More scintillation means an origin in the turbulent magnetic environment around the neutron star; no observed scintillation would mean an origin further from the neutron star, favoring the shockwave theory. Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2025 Germanium semiconductor detectors, radioactive cesium concentration detectors, sodium iodide scintillation spectrometers and more scan the produce for any signs of radioactivity. Kate Graham-Shaw, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2024 While lacking some knowledge of the original source material may hinder the play’s clarity, the staccato rhythms iron out beautifully in a stunning second act that ties up every necessary loose end with scintillation. David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2024 The quality of light at the moment when totality begins is stupendous with an amazing show of iridescence, scintillation, and delicate colors. Michael E. Bakich, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024 See the white or black spots flickering at the intersections in this image from Ninio's study? Blurred Hermann grids produce, as found by Bergen (1985), a scintillation effect. Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2016 This reaction produces a tiny amount of light—scintillation—which is measured by sensors and subsequently processed by computer algorithms. WIRED, 13 Jan. 2023 The strange state of affairs today is that one scintillation experiment—DAMA, located at Gran Sasso—has actually seen a signal. Lisa Randall, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scintillation
Noun
  • Unlike with fluorescence, this process does not need an external source of light.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2025
  • On a recent Saturday, at a bar in New York City’s Tribeca, a couple of hundred young sports fans in T-shirts and baseball caps ordered light beers served in tall glasses and shouted over a bellowing sound system under the confining fluorescence of 57 televisions.
    Jack Sullivan, airmail.news, 6 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • This luminescence is the hallmark of this mushroom, which gave rise to its common name: the ghost fungus.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Its sawtooth roofline’s skylights that once poured shadowless daylight onto the factory floor now provide the perfect luminescence for minimalist sculpture.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • And unless my eyes deceive me, the shine is turned up to 11 thanks to shimmer in her middle part.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Green Orchard: spiced green apple, honey, lemon, soda, shimmer.
    Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Brigitte Macron brought a touch of sparkle to the state dinner for Angola in Paris on Thursday.
    Julia Teti, WWD, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The best winter wedding guest dresses are a glamorous affair: dreamy sequins, a variety of long sleeve styles, and a little sparkle.
    Rachel Sylvester, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There's an uncanny, alien quality to her voice, which unfurls like incense smoke, while the track's speckled bongos and subtle chimes glint like light reflected off a cocktail glass.
    EW.com, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
  • An electric line snakes in from a nearby pole, and a satellite dish glints in the sun.
    Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Wadsworth Griswold House decks the halls just like 'Christmas Vacation' In Northeast Ohio, the Griswold House in Wadsworth is festooned with 25,000 twinkle lights, just like the film.
    Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 24 Dec. 2024
  • In Wayne’s greenhouse—where tomato seedings unfurled each spring—we’d gather for Christmas dinner, the trusses wound with twinkle lights and the long table laid with votives.
    Anna Noyes, Bon Appétit, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Art And Craft Supplies Paints, glues, and markers dry out; craft papers can fade; and the teens have outgrown glitter and pipe cleaners.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Avoid glitter and foil, and look for cards that are labelled as recyclable.
    Verity Burns, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The panel is an ultra-low glare design, too, thanks to premium low-reflection technology, and supports wider viewing angles than regular LCD models.
    John Archer, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • This image's fiery glare, eyes swirled in their galactic arms, is a combination of mixed-spectrum captures using the James Webb Space Telescope for mid-infrared light, and the Hubble Space Telescope for visible and ultraviolet light.
    Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025

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“Scintillation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scintillation. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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