Strobe

Quick meaning: Strobe is a noun meaning A stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light.

Meaning

A stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light.

More Meanings

1. (computing) An electronic signal in hardware indicating that a value is ready to be read.
2. To flash like a stroboscopic lamp.

Example Sentences

a memory strobe; a data strobe

White all light sources illuminate the subject, the strobe both illuminates and "freezes" the subject.

Here was a blazingly erotic sex star par excellence as Travolta gyrated around that strobing disco dance floor like a cock-o'-the-walk.

... as they fuck she quakes, body strobing miles beneath him in cream and night-blue, all sound suppressed, eyes in crescents behind gold lashes.

Word Forms

• strobes
• strobing
• strobed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include signal, shrapnel, flash, flash-forward, stroboscope, videostroboscope.

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