Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various instruments used to observe moving objects by making them appear stationary, especially with pulsed illumination or mechanical devices that intermittently interrupt observation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument used in the study of the periodic motion of a body, as one in rapid revolution or vibration, by illuminating it at frequent intervals (for example, by electric sparks or by a beam of light made intermittent by passing through a moving perforated plate), or again by viewing it through the openings of a revolving disk: also used as a toy. The phenakistoscope and zoëtrope represent one form of stroboscope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.
- noun An optical toy similar to the phenakistoscope. See
Phenakistoscope .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Instrument for studying or observing periodic movement by rendering a moving body visible only at regular intervals.
- noun A lamp that produces short bursts of light that synchronizes with a camera shutter for photographing fast-moving objects; A photo made by such a machine.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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With a flash duration of one hundred-thousandth of a second, the stroboscope finally revealed the motion of wings that had been too fast for other cameras to capture.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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Until the invention of the stroboscope, scientists could not understand how hummingbirds hover.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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The flashes were like an irregular stroboscope and the rumbling was like an enormous building was being demolished nearby.
This weekend... nathreee 2007
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Using a stroboscope and laser, a team led by Swedish researcher Johan Mauritsson, assistant professor in atomic physics at Lund University, went beyond measuring the end result of an electron's interaction, they tracked and filmed its process.
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Their method involved using a stroboscope and a laser that uses attosecond pulses to film electron motion.
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In 1926 Edgerton had begun research which continued when he joined the faculty at MIT that ended with the stroboscope: illuminating spinning turbine blades with a light flashing at the same speed as they were spinning, thus “freezing” the image of a single blade for examination.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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In 1926 Edgerton had begun research which continued when he joined the faculty at MIT that ended with the stroboscope: illuminating spinning turbine blades with a light flashing at the same speed as they were spinning, thus “freezing” the image of a single blade for examination.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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They even have Strobe Lab, including the required lab experiments student must supply own stroboscope, rifle, ammunition, and target objects.
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They even have Strobe Lab, including the required lab experiments student must supply own stroboscope, rifle, ammunition, and target objects.
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Using a stroboscope, which can flash 100 times a second or more, single-image photographs can capture every split second of high-speed maneuvers such as figure skating jumps.
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