strobe
Also called strobe light . stroboscope (def. 2a).
Origin of strobe
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How to use strobe in a sentence
As I stepped into the main building that housed Unit C, an earsplitting siren blared suddenly and a dozen strobes flashed.
Inside a Hospital for the Criminally Insane | Caitlin Dickson | September 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIntermittently, like photographers' strobes, blue flashes would light the jungle about him.
Survival Tactics | Al SevcikThe flashes popped in our eyes like strobes, and I shook my head to clear it.
Little Brother | Cory Doctorow
British Dictionary definitions for strobe
/ (strəʊb) /
short for strobe lighting, stroboscope
to give the appearance of arrested or slow motion by using intermittent illumination
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Scientific definitions for strobe
[ strōb ]
A strobe light.
A stroboscope.
A spot of higher than normal intensity in the sweep of an indicator on a scanning device, as on a radar screen, used as a reference mark for determining the position or distance of the object scanned or detected.
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