Scintillation can refer to: *

Scintillation (astronomy) Twinkling, also called scintillation, is a generic term for variations in apparent brightness, colour, or position of a distant luminous object viewed through a medium.Wang, Ting-I; Williams, Donn"Scintillation technology bests NIST" , ''InTec ...

, atmospheric effects which influence astronomical observations *

Interplanetary scintillation In astronomy, interplanetary scintillation refers to random fluctuations in the intensity of radio waves of celestial origin, on the timescale of a few seconds. It is analogous to the twinkling one sees looking at stars in the sky at night, but in ...

, fluctuations of radio waves caused by the solar wind *

Scintillation (physics) Scintillation is the physical process where a material, called scintillator, emits UV or visible light under excitation from high energy photons (X-rays or γ-rays) or energetic particles,(such as electrons, alpha particles, neutrons or ions). ...

, a flash of light produced in certain materials when they absorb ionizing radiation *

Scintillation (radar) Scintillation is a fluctuation in the amplitude of a target on a radar display. It is closely related to target glint, or wander, an apparent displacement of the target from its mean There are several kinds of mean in mathematics, especially in ...

, an apparent rapid target displacement occurring on radar displays * Scintillation (medicine), a rapidly oscillating pattern of visual distortions, often associated with migraine aura *

Scintillation counter A scintillation counter is an instrument for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation by using the excitation effect of incident radiation on a scintillating material, and detecting the resultant light pulses. It consists of a scintillator w ...

, a device that measures ionizing radiation * Scintillating grid illusion, an image in which compounded color contrasts cause an optical illusion of visual artifacts

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