stroboscope
/ˈstrəʊbəskəʊp
/noun Physics
1An instrument for studying periodic motion or determining speeds of rotation by shining a bright light at intervals so that a moving or rotating object appears stationary.He also constructed his own stroboscope and kinesiscope....
- The stroboscope creates patterns and colors by interference with the brain waves.
- Instead, he made a kind of mechanical stroboscope.
1.1A lamp made to flash intermittently, especially for this purpose.One of these toys was a stroboscope which rotated in front of a mirror and simulated moving pictures from figures drawn in it.
Derivatives
stroboscopic
- The short-lived microcavitation bubbles were visualized using time-resolved microscopy with stroboscopic illumination.
- A stroboscopic snapshot of the tube location is given in Fig.3, where the tube displacements in the x, y plane are clearly evident.
- An early work, his and Binkley's stroboscopic tour de force, Caught, remains a classic of popular appeal.
stroboscopically
- By changing this delay we stroboscopically record the response of the magnetization as a function of time.
- We stroboscopically display the motion of single sperical wavefronts from sources arrayed along y-axis.
- Cue a lot of chases, stroboscopically edited fight scenes, and the odd twist here and there.
stroboscopical
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Greek strobos 'whirling' + -scope.
- Permo-Pennsylvanian
- Permo–Carboniferous
- Permo–Triassic
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