[ noun ] scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary <noun.artifact>
There was no strobe light; there was no nothing.
They've rigged a strobe light to calculate how fast the tip of a lawn mower blade spins, because a federal safety regulation requires blades to rotate less than 19,000 feet per minute.
When Baryshnikov stepped onstage on opening night, so many flashbulbs went off that it looked as though someone had turned on a strobe light.
Even the millionth-second flash of a special strobe "is very slow" compared with the laser flashes of nine nanoseconds, or billionths of a second, says Jeanne Lee Crews, who directs the research.
In recent weeks, workers have painted thick black stripes outlined with yellow to mark the inner taxiway and have identified the taxiway with 10-foot letters and strobe lights.
Inmates appeared on the roof, and one was heard chanting: "We won, we won, you lost." A flickering strobe light played repeatedly over the roof of the prison in the northern city of Manchester.
In the next room, the feeling of being under the influence of crack, a highly addictive form of cocaine, is portrayed by flashing strobe lights and loud thumping sound effects.
The crew of a Coast Guard plane spotted the barge Wednesday, and a Guard helicopter dropped a radio buoy with a strobe light onto it, French said.