Thursday, September 2, 2010
let's transcend
scin·til·la·tion [sin-tl-ey-shuhn] Show IPA
–noun
1.the act of scintillating; sparkling.
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.flash of light from the ionization of a phosphor struck by an energetic photon or particle.
b.random fluctuation of the amplitude, phase, or polarization of an electromagnetic wave.
6.(on a radar display) a slight, rapid shifting of a spot of light or the image of an object about its mean position.
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