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strobe
[ strohb ]
adjective
strobe
/ strəʊb /
verb
- to give the appearance of arrested or slow motion by using intermittent illumination
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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Word History and Origins
Origin of strobe1
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Example Sentences
He stormed legendary spots like Palladium and Tunnel, and turned them into strobe-lit dens of iniquity.
The light glinted strobe-like off the brick façade and the air momentarily filled with the paparazzi sound of camera shutters.
The strobe lights in the cardboard bleachers flash and after a second take Coco nails her walk and gets whisked away for a nap.
Camera flashes from both onstage guests and the audience shutter like strobe lights.
That morning, I escaped from the school with my classmates at the prompting of a strobe-lighted fire alarm after shots rang out.
Even a portable strobe-light gives a couple of million watts for the forty-thousandth of a second.
I'm thinking—suppose I made the field with a strobe-light power-pack—or maybe a spot-welding unit.
My vision washed over pink, and a strobe pounded at the edges of my vision.
Mandibular strobe: a broad deep groove on outer side of mandible in some Coleoptera.
One strobe of Querto's sabre had severed his faithful head from his body.
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