strobe light

Scientific  

1. A lamp that produces very short, intense flashes of light by means of an electric discharge in a gas. The ability of strobe lights to “freeze” the motion of rapidly moving objects by making them visible for only a fraction of a second makes them very useful in photography and in measuring vibration and other types of high-speed motion.

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Example Sentences

It was pitch-black outside, but the lightning strikes were so fast and so frequent they looked like strobe lights.

From Literature

The scene was pure chaos: thick smoke from gunpowder still hanging in the air, water cascading from ruptured pipes in the ceiling, alarms blaring, strobe lights flashing.

From Los Angeles Times

Powered by these realizations, she’ll continue to lose herself in foggy nightclub dance floors, masses of sweaty bodies and blinding strobe lights.

From Los Angeles Times

Ms Rannigan suffers from epilepsy and said she was surprised that there were no strobe light/flash warnings either verbally or on signage.

From BBC

There was an almighty roar as she took to the stage, washed in strobe lights, and launched into her recent single Hammer.

From BBC