Scintilla

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scintilla \Scin*til"la\, n. [L.]
     A spark; the least particle; an iota; a tittle. --R. North.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  scintilla
       n 1: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: {shred}, {whit},
            {iota}, {tittle}, {smidgen}, {smidgeon}, {smidgin}, {smidge}]
       2: a sparkling glittering particles

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "scintilla":
     blink, blinking, cast, coruscation, dash, firefly, gleam, glimmer,
     glimmering, glisten, glister, glitter, glittering, glowworm, hint,
     idea, intimation, lick, look, scintillation, shade, shadow,
     shimmer, shimmering, sip, smack, smattering, smell, soupcon,
     spangle, spark, sparkle, sprinkling, stroboscopic light,
     suggestion, sup, suspicion, taste, thought, tincture, tinge,
     tinsel, touch, trace, twinkle, twinkling