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), 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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