the definition of scintilla
scintilla noun. a scintilla of sth âº a very âsmall âamount of something: There's not a scintilla of âtruth in what he says. (Definition of scintilla from the Cambridge Advanced Learnerâs Dictionary & Thesaurus Â© Cambridge University Press).
Scintilla. Scintilla is a free library that provides text-editing functions, with an emphasis on advanced features for source code editing. SciTE, Geany, Notepad++, and Notepad2 are examples of standalone editors based on Scintilla.