strobe light

American  

[strohb lahyt] / ˈstroʊb ˌlaɪt /

noun

• strobe lights
  plural

1. a lamp capable of producing extremely short, brilliant bursts of light and used for various purposes, such as photographing rapidly moving objects or to create special lighting effects, as in a discotheque or at a rock concert.

2. stroboscope.

3. the light produced by such a lamp, occurring in short, brilliant bursts.

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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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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• strobe lighting
  noun
• strobe-light
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• strobe lights
  plural

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Example Sentences

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strobe light

He remembers a strobe light guiding the ferry into the port.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The flashes can also be used as a strobe light to make “movies” of molecules responding to, say, a blast of ordinary laser light.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 18, 2023

Each time, a strobe light would flash in her room and the PA system would instruct her to evacuate and not use the elevator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2023

We see these warriors, 20 years after the formation of the group, all dressed in white, under a strobe light, doing a rave-style dance workout.

From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022

All around her, the Mist flickered like a dying strobe light.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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