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strobe lighting

British  

noun

  1. a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc

  2. the use of or the apparatus for producing such light

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I am about to be subjected to strobe lighting while music plays – as part of a research project trying to understand what makes us truly human.

From BBC • May 25, 2025

The film-within-a-film ends with an on-set disaster — a burst of nightmarish imagery, all retina-scalding neon hues and strobe lighting effects — that might, for Noé, qualify as a kind of miracle.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2022

One was the usual kind of advisory, a heads-up that the show they were about to see contained fog, haze, strobe lighting and mature content.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2017

“Now for the first time, you have total control over your lights,” says Bosua, who presents the Kickstarter video and even does a robot dance during a demo of the bulbs’ strobe lighting option.

From Forbes • Sep. 17, 2012

Yet, very gently and very, very cautiously, it is worth looking for some small shafts of substance amid the strobe lighting.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2012