strobe

A stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light.

Noun

  1. A stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light.
    • White all light sources illuminate the subject, the strobe both illuminates and "freezes" the subject. - 2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, →ISBN, page 59:
  2. An electronic signal in hardware indicating that a value is ready to be read.
    • a memory strobe; a data strobe

Origin

Shortening of stroboscope.

Forms

strobes

Derived

remote strobe strobe light strobe lighting strobelike strobic strobotron

Verb

  1. To flash like a stroboscopic lamp.
    • ... as they fuck she quakes, body strobing miles beneath him in cream and night-blue, all sound suppressed, eyes in crescents behind gold lashes... - 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
    • Here was a blazingly erotic sex star par excellence as Travolta gyrated around that strobing disco dance floor like a cock-o'-the-walk. - 1986, Sam Frank, Sex in the Movies:
    • The problem was that when running cables the entire length of the tunnel, engineers had to take into account any voltage drop to ensure no lights strobe - something that could cause serious issues for drivers running at...

Forms

strobes strobing strobed