microflash

A flash of extremely short duration.

Noun

  1. A flash of extremely short duration.
    • A microflash unit typically has two tubes with a variable delay unit to provide two timed flashes. Optical coupling of the flash tubes gives an equivalent spatial position to avoid parallax of shadows. - 1999, Sidney...
    • Repetitive exposures from the same field allow unequivocal separation of noise from microflashes. - 2015, Frank H. Johnson, Yata Haneda, Bioluminescence in Progress, page 283:

Origin

From micro- + flash.

Forms

microflashes