twinkle

v. sparkle, produce a flickering light; (usually of the eyes) to be bright with pleasure or joy; move quickly and lightly on one's feet; blink, wink (Archaic)

n. sparkle, flicker, faint uneven light; amount of time it takes to wink; wink (Archaic)

TWINKLE is a hypothetical integer factorization device described in 1999 by Adi Shamir and purported to be capable of factoring 512-bit integers. The name is an acronym of "The Weizmann Institute Key Locating Engine". It is also a pun on the twinkling LEDs used in the device.The goal of TWINKLE is to implement the sieving step of the Number Field Sieve algorithm, which is the fastest known algorithm for factoring large integers. The sieving step, at least for 512-bit integers, is the most time consuming step of NFS. It involves testing a large set of numbers for B-'smoothness', i.e, absence of a prime factor greater than a specified bound B.
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Twinkle may refer to one of the following.Scintillation twinkling, a phenomenon in the viewing [e.g. of stars]Winking or blinking an eyeTwinkle, a dance step in some ballroom dancesTwinkle, a British pop singer in the 1960s.Twinkle, a British comic (1968–1999).Twinkle, a female contestant in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005 who managed to obtain 8th positionTwinkle, a fictional blade used by Drizzt Do'Urden in the Forgotten Realms fantasy universe.Twinkling, a hand signal used in the process of consensual decision makingTwinkle, a flashcard program for Palm OS handheldsTwinkle, Qt based VoIP soft phone for LinuxTWINKLE, a hypothetical integer factorization deviceTwinkle, a pop song by Koda Kumi and Show Luo.Twinkle, one of the cousins from We ♥ Katamari and Me & My Katamari.Twinkle, Mudflap's pretty girlfriend who is also a clone of Jinmay from Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!.
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Noun
1. a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash
(synonym) scintillation, sparkling
(hypernym) change, alteration, modification
(derivation) winkle, scintillate
Verb
1. gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"
(synonym) flash, blink, wink, winkle
(hypernym) radiate
(hyponym) flicker, flick
(derivation) scintillation, sparkling
2. emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"
(synonym) winkle, scintillate
(hypernym) shine, beam
(verb-group) scintillate
(derivation) scintillation, sparkling
(classification) celestial body, heavenly body

(v. i.)
To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.
  

(v. i.)
To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.
  

(n.)
The time of a wink; a twinkling.
  

(n.)
A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.
  

(n.)
A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.
  

Synonyms and related words:
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