Shortening ofstroboscope.

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/stɹəʊb/

• Audio(Southern England):

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• (General American)IPA^(key):/stɹoʊb/
• Rhymes:-əʊb

strobe (pluralstrobes)

1. Astroboscopiclamp: a device used to produce regularflashes of light.
   • 2006,Michael Grecco,Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books,→ISBN, page59:

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

2. (computing) Anelectronicsignal inhardware indicating that a value is ready to be read.

   a memorystrobe; a datastrobe

strobe (third-person singular simple presentstrobes,present participlestrobing,simple past and past participlestrobed)

1. To flash like a stroboscopic lamp.
   • 1973,Thomas Pynchon,Gravity's Rainbow:

     ... as they fuck she quakes, bodystrobing 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 starpar excellence as Travolta gyrated around thatstrobing disco dance floor like a cock-o'-the-walk.

   • 2023 November 29, Peter Plisner, “The winds of change in Catesby Tunnel”, inRAIL, number997, page58:

     The problem was that when running cables the entire length of the tunnel, engineers had to take into account any voltage drop to ensure no lightsstrobe - something that could cause serious issues for drivers running at high speeds.

• Boster,Stober,Tobers,besort,borest,sorbet,tobers

strobe

1. vocativesingular ofstrobus