单词 | scintillation |
释义 | scintillation/sɪntɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n /noun 1A flash or sparkle of light: scintillations of diamond-hard light...
1.1 [mass noun] The process or state of emitting flashes of light.There is an oscillation which causes an impression of scintillation over the area. 1.2 Physics A small flash of visible or ultraviolet light emitted by fluorescence in a phosphor when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon.I loved to hold its face close to mine in the dark and watch the scintillations produced every time a radium nucleus decayed....
1.3 [mass noun] Astronomy The twinkling of the stars, caused by the earth’s atmosphere diffracting starlight unevenly.They were looking for a differential shift of less than one second of arc; even on a perfectly still night, the amount of scintillation or blurring shown by stars due to atmospheric turbulence is of this order....
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