The quality of glittering or sparkling brightly

Usage examples of scintillation.

Above the engine roar comes a loud crack, followed by a scintillation spreading underfoot, as the Packard hits a dark patch on the frozen lake.

Everywhere those mad dancers, brown like the bronze statuette, were flinging themselves into abandoned gyrations, with the furious scintillation of golden bangles clanging a tempo to the drums.

High above the tattered clouds, the aurora borealis forms a veil across the sky, a garish mother-of-pearl haze riddled with thousands of long, lurid scintillations, like giant shooting stars.

In the twenty-five minutes between then and now, sleep, the great healer, had incapacitated me, leaving me dizzy and weak, with scintillations in the periphery of my visual field.

The Kit-Cat Caravan began to mount up: and so the last they saw of the Clubb were scintillations of cut-crystal stirrup-cups and of the silver trays on which they were brought around, faint as gleaming of fish-scales on the black waters that lapped at Billingsgate Stairs.

Equipment ranging from simple column chromatography setups to sophisticated liquid scintillation counters sat atop the counter, alongside agar-filled petri dishes and folded nitrocellulose filters.

Now as he stared at the marvelous scintillation of the Eagers, he heard in his mind the tinkle and crash of broken crystal, the satisfying impact one felt when hitting something that would not bend or give way and could not hit back.

There were no late-twentieth-century gadgets such the Single Photon Absorptiometer or scintillation detectors to estimate height based on the length of the humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia, and fibula - the long bones of the arms and legs.

Now, after a Kwikspell course, I am the center of attention at parties and friends beg for the recipe of my Scintillation Solution!

They were alive with scintillations from the radiation blitz, entombing the giant ship in a nebula of shooting stars.

The bored secretary broke off updating her desk diary to pick it up and thrust it under the makeshift scintillation counter that Nigel Frogland had set up in the office the previous afternoon: when it began to buzz her jaw dropped and she nearly spilt her coffee.

The air hazed over with bright scintillations, thickening protectively around her.

Then the distortion smeared it with refracted scintillations from the gleaming starscraper, and it shot away at a bruising acceleration.

What he really needed was a high-grade scintillation counter, but that was nothing anyone could carry in a pocket.

The device contained no fissionables it wouldn't have been detected by any kind of a scintillation counter, only the kind of X ray or muon scanner that no one would put a valuable bird through.