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strobe

[strohb]

noun

  1. Also called strobe light.Ģżstroboscope.



adjective

  1. stroboscopic.

strobe

/ ²õ³Ł°łÉ™ŹŠ²ś /

noun

  1. short for strobe lighting stroboscope

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verb

  1. to give the appearance of arrested or slow motion by using intermittent illumination

ā€œCollins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

strobe

  1. A strobe light.

  2. A stroboscope.

  3. 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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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of strobe1

First recorded in 1940–45; shortened form
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A storm scene, one of Verdi’s great innovations, is so strongly revealed that it has no need for the added strobe effects.

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I am about to be subjected to strobe lighting while music plays – as part of a research project trying to understand what makes us truly human.

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"If I had a vehicle fire and the tyres caught fire, there would be thick black smoke and you'd struggle to see, hence the strobes on there to guide you in," Mr Richardson says.

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Add to it pulsing strobe lights and floppy, oversized, mouthless cyclopes and you have all the makings of a nightmare trip.

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Perhaps you’re making the neighborhood kids work for their treats by having them run a gantlet of shrieks, fog and strobe lights to get to the bowl of candy.

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What doesĀ strobe mean?

Strobe is another name for a strobe light—a type of specialized lamp that produces a continuous series of short, bright flashes of light.Strobe lights are also called stroboscopes or stroboscopic lamps.Strobe can also be used as a verb meaning to flash in such a way.The kind of rapid flashing produced by a strobe light (called strobe lighting) has the effect of seeming to freeze the movement of things in motion. This happens because the thing that’s moving—such as a person dancing—is only lit up for a fraction of a second.Strobe lights are associated with their use at concerts, raves, and dance clubs, but they also have technical uses in photography. Because strobes produce very short, extremely bright bursts of light, they can be used in conjunction with a camera to photograph a rapidly moving object, such as a bullet, for such a short duration that it will appear to be standing still in the resulting photo. Strobes also have other scientific uses involving the measurement of vibration and other types of high-speed motion.Strobes look like they’re just flashing on and off, but this effect is usually produced by an electric discharge in a gas or a disc that rotates in front of a light source.Example: I hate going to concerts that use strobes—I end up having to close my eyes most of the time to shield them from the bright flashes.

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