Usually means: Emission of light from excited.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. scintillation: Merriam-Webster
  2. scintillation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scintillation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scintillation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scintillation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scintillation, scintillation: Wordnik
  7. scintillation: Wiktionary
  8. scintillation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. scintillation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. scintillation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. scintillation: Dictionary.com
  12. Scintillation (astronomy), Scintillation (disambiguation), Scintillation (physics), Scintillation (radar), Scintillation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Scintillation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. scintillation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. scintillation: Rhymezone
  16. scintillation: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  17. Scintillation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. scintillation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. scintillation: FreeDictionary.org
  20. scintillation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. scintillation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scintillation (disambiguation), Scintillation (radar), scintillation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. scintillation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Scintillation (disambiguation), Scintillation (medicine), Scintillation: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scintillation: Extragalactic Astronomy
  2. SCINTILLATION: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See scintillations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (scintillation)

noun:  A flash of light; a spark.
noun:  (astronomy) The twinkling of a star or other celestial body caused by turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
noun:  (nuclear physics) The flash of light produced by something (especially a phosphor) when it absorbs ionizing radiation.
noun:  (figurative) A brief expression that is amusing or clever; witticism.

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