Use of the BIN +. The Bank Identification Number (BIN) is a term from the credit card industry. It refers to a six-digit number that is assigned to banks for electronic routing of transactions. Credit/debit cards that are involved in banking transactions contain a BIN on magnetic stripe.
Definition of scintillation. 1 :  an act or instance of scintillating; especially : rapid changes in the brightness of a celestial body. 2a : a spark or flash emitted in scintillatingb : a flash of light produced in a phosphor by an ionizing event.
Extruded plastic scintillator material fluorescing under a UV inspection lamp at Fermilab for the MINERÎ½A project. A scintillator is a material that exhibits scintillation â the property of luminescence, when excited by ionizing radiation. Luminescent materials, when struck by an incoming particle, absorb its energy and scintillate, (i.e. re-emit the absorbed energy in the form of light).