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strobic

/ ˈٰəʊɪ /

adjective

  1. spinning or appearing to spin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of strobic1

C19: from Greek strobos act of spinning
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Mr. Turrell has programmed a quick strobic blast every nine minutes “as a palate cleanser for your eyes.”

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To scour these lanes of strobic gloom— Infernal doom by mongrels' wrought!

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When carcants gleam like scarlet foam, And hiss of pyres froth at each light In dongas vext as jazels flare From splinter'd tombs of Kings in dust, A straggling mist that cleft Hell's dome, Peers at the gloom and strobic sight Of charnel shard as vypers blare Wrathfully at each Monarch's bust.

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He thus compares the appearance of several rods to the appearance of several dots in intermittent illumination of the strobic wheel.

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The apparatus is actually a cinematograph, but one which gives so many pictures in the second that they entirely fuse and the strobic movement has no trace of discontinuity.

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