strobe
English
Etymology
Shortening of stroboscope.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -əʊb
Noun
strobe (plural strobes)
- A stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light.
- 2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, →ISBN, page 59:
- White all light sources illuminate the subject, the strobe both illuminates and "freezes" the subject.
- (computing) An electronic signal in hardware indicating that a value is ready to be read.
- a memory strobe; a data strobe
Verb
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- To flash like a stroboscopic lamp.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- ... as they fuck she quakes, body strobing miles beneath him in cream and night-blue, all sound suppressed, eyes in crescents behind gold lashes...
- 1986, Sam Frank, Sex in the Movies:
- Here was a blazingly erotic sex star par excellence as Travolta gyrated around that strobing disco dance floor like a cock-o'-the-walk.
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Noun
(deprecated template usage) strobe