scintilla

Synonyymisanakirja: scintilla

scintilla

1. hiukkanen, subatominen hiukkanen, partikkeli, hitunen, vähäinen määrä, häivä, rahtunen, rahtu, hippunen, hyppysellinen, hiukka, hieman, hiven.

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Sitaatit: scintilla

• "scintilla etiam exigua in tenebris micat."

Riimisanakirja: scintilla

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Käännökset: scintilla

scintilla suomeksi

häivä, hitunen

• hitunen

scintilla englanniksi

• A small spark or flash.

• 1890, Philosophical Magazine, http://books.google.com/books?id=F1Y1sD9CkZ8C&q=%22scintillas%22&dq=%22scintillas%22&hl=en&ei=KDWETo-PGs7wmAWUtOEZ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBDg8 page 364,

If the action of the electrodynamic waves is so violent that, even without artificial electrification of the secondary conductor, scintillæ occur in its spark-gap, the aluminium leaves remain almost without change.

• A small or trace amount.

• 1876 February, w:John Tyndall|John Tyndall, s:Popular Science Monthly/Volume 8/February 1876/The Controversy on Acoustical Research|The Controversy on Acoustical Research, w:Popular Science|Popular Science Monthly,

And, if I except the sagacious remark of General Duane which has been so curtly brushed aside, not a scintilla of light has been cast upon these causes by any researches ever published by the Lighthouse Board of Washington.

• 1878 April, w:John Tyndall|John Tyndall, s:Popular Science Monthly/Volume 12/April 1878/Illustrations of the Logic of Science IV|Illustrations of the Logic of Science IV, w:Popular Science|Popular Science Monthly,

Now, it may be we have no scintilla of proof to the contrary, but reason is unnecessary in reference to that belief which is of all the most settled, which nobody doubts or can doubt, and which he who should deny would stultify himself in so doing.

• 1990, w:William J. Brennan, Jr.|William J. Brennan, Jr., s:Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health/Dissent Brennan|Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health: Dissent Brennan, w:United States Supreme Court|United States Supreme Court,

Current medical practice recommends use of heroic measures if there is a scintilla of a chance that the patient will recover, on the assumption that the measures will be discontinued should the patient improve.

• (inflection of)

• spark

• second-person singular imperative of scintillare

• w:Quintus Curtius Rufus|Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt; Book VI, Chapter III

Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.

: A small spark neglected has often roused to a great inferno.

• glimmer

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