strobotron

[stroh-buh-tron, strob-uh-]

noun Electronics.

a glow lamp, used in stroboscopes, that gives very bright flashes of light in response to voltage pulses.

Origin of strobotron

1935–40; strobo- (see stroboscope) + -tron

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