Scintillator

//ˌsɪntɪˈleɪtə(ɹ)// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any substance that glows under the action of photons or other high-energy particles

Etymology

From scintillate + -or.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.