scintillator

[sin-tl-ey-ter]

scin·til·la·tor

[sin-tl-ey-ter]
noun Physics.
a phosphor capable of producing scintillations.

Origin:
1870–75; scintillate + -or2
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To scintillator

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Scintillator is always a great word to know.
So is collision. Does it mean:
one of the units, as mass, length, time, or electric current, taken as a basis for a system of units in the sciences
the meeting of particles or of bodies in which each exerts a force upon the other, causing the exchange of energy or momentum
Collins
World English Dictionary
scintillator (ˈsɪntɪˌleɪtə)
 
n
physics a phosphor that produces scintillations

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
American Heritage
Medical Dictionary

scintillator scin·til·la·tor (sĭn'tl-ā'tər)
n.
A substance that glows when hit by high-energy particles or photons.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT