STROBOSCOPE
\stɹˈɒbəskˌə͡ʊp], \stɹˈɒbəskˌəʊp], \s_t_ɹ_ˈɒ_b_ə_s_k_ˌəʊ_p]\
Definitions of STROBOSCOPE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary
By Princeton University
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scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.
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An optical toy similar to the phenakistoscope. See Phenakistoscope.
By Oddity Software
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strob'[=o]-sk[=o]p, n. an apparatus for observing periodic motion by throwing light at intervals on the rotating body.--adj. STROBOSCOP'IC. [Gr. strobos, a turning, skopein, to see.]
By Thomas Davidson
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[Greek] A zoetrope; a revolving disc on which figures representing the same object in different attitudes are depicted. When looked at through a series of slits these figures appear like a single object which changes its shape from one attitude to the other, and hence appears to be in motion.
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[Greek] An apparatus, constructed on the same principle, for observing the successive phases of a body actually changing shape or in motion. Stroboscopic, of or pertaining to a s.
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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