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strobe lighting

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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

GMT05:41 Amid much glitz and excitement in the Singapore indoor arena – think packed house, electronic billboards flashing messages in lurid pink, deafening music, colourful strobe lighting – the players are out and warming up.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2015

“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

It’s sonically assaultive, a riot of full-sprint drumming — by Greg Fox, increasingly this band’s central nervous system — and guitar lines with the spasmodic precision of strobe lighting.

From New York Times • May 6, 2011

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