An object that emits or reflects light in an intermittent flickering manner

Usage examples of twinkler.

Fortunately, a robotic observatory had been in orbit around Twinkler, and signs of the explosion had been detected early, in the form of a veritable avalanche of precursor neutrinos.

In fact, he had calculated that everyone on the side of the world away from Twinkler could survive.

He tried to derive what comfort he could from the thought that Twinkler was at least going to wipe out all this residue of recorded orders and advice.

When natural disaster threatened on an interstellar scale, as in the case of Twinkler, humanity might enjoy the luxury of decades or even centuries in which to dodge destruction.

This pendant world, observe, is not the earth, as Addison understood it, but the entire sidereal universe, depicted not as the infinity we now know it to be, but as a definite object, so insulated in the vastness of space as to be perceptible to the distant Fiend as a minute star, and no larger in comparison with the courts of Heaven--themselves not wholly seen--than such a twinkler matched with the full-orbed moon.

Such tiny twinklers as the planet orbs That ministering on the solar power With borrowed light pursued their narrower way.

Lessened by slow degrees and soon appeared Such tiny twinklers as the planet orbs That there attendant on the solar power With borrowed light pursued their narrower way.

Promise: There was a smile, there was a consenting Look with those pretty Twinklers, worth a Million.

But we're going to skip round among those little twinklers up there--the stars--and the splendid planets that my old man so often talks about.