strobic

/ ˈstrəʊbɪk /

adjective

1. spinning or appearing to spin

Word History and Origins

Origin of strobic¹

C19: from Greek strobos act of spinning

Example Sentences

Mr. Turrell has programmed a quick strobic blast every nine minutes “as a palate cleanser for your eyes.”

From New York Times

To scour these lanes of strobic gloom— Infernal doom by mongrels' wrought!

From Project Gutenberg

When carcants gleam like scarlet foam, And hiss of pyres froth at each light In dongas vext as jazels flare From splinter'd tombs of Kings in dust, A straggling mist that cleft Hell's dome, Peers at the gloom and strobic sight Of charnel shard as vypers blare Wrathfully at each Monarch's bust.

From Project Gutenberg

He thus compares the appearance of several rods to the appearance of several dots in intermittent illumination of the strobic wheel.

From Project Gutenberg

For the ratio 1:3 between the two rates, the strobic system has four bands of each color; for 1:2, three bands of each color; while when the two rates are equal, there are two bands of each color, forming a diameter.

From Project Gutenberg