scintillation

Other forms of scintillation

plural

scintillations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scintillation

What does scintillation mean?

scintillation means "(physics) a flash of light that is produced in a phosphor when it absorbs a photon or ionizing particle". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scintillation?

scintillation has 5 syllables: scin-til-la-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for scintillation?

Close synonyms include twinkle, sparkling, glitter, glister, glisten. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scintillation a common word?

scintillation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.