Strobe

Definition: Strobe

Strobe

Noun

1. Scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary.

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Date "strobe" was first used: 1942. (references)

Computing

Post & Telecom

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strobe

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Synonyms: Strobe

Velocity

Log, log line; speedometer, odometer, tachometer, strobe, radar speed detector, radar trap, air speed gauge, wind sock, wind speed meter; pedometer.

Crosswords: Strobe

Lit the strobe light up the wall. (Dance Away; performing artist: Roxy Music)

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Books

• Billy Strobe (reference)

• Electronic Flash, Strobe - 3rd Edition (reference)

• Seeing the Unseen : Dr. Harold E. Edgerton and the Wonders of Strobe Alley (reference)

• Strobe (reference)

  (more book examples)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Hakuba Wireless Remote Strobe Trigger (reference)

• Visioneer Parallel Adapter For Strobe & Strobe Pro (reference)

• Visioneer Strobe XP 100 Scanner (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• EMERSON RP008 Mini Safety Strobe - Green (reference)

• EMERSON RP009 Mini Safety Strobe - Blue (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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The back-up strobe in the lantern room of the Yaquina Head lighthouse. Credit: Michael Noack.

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Expressions using "strobe": address Strobe ♦ column Address Strobe ♦ Row Address Strobe ♦ strobe light ♦ strobe lighting. Additional references.

Beginning with "strobe": strobe-equipped, strobe-laced, strobe-lights, strobe-like.

Chinese 

闪光灯 (STROBES). (various references)

Danish

strobe, Weymouthsfyr (cork pine, melancholy pine, Weymouth pine, white pine, yellow pine), impuls (drive, impulse, impulsion, pulse), at strobe. (various references)

Dutch

strobe, selektiemerkteken, selecteren, Weymouthsden (cork pine, melancholy pine, Weymouth pine, white pine, yellow pine), Weymouthpijn (cork pine, melancholy pine, Weymouth pine, white pine, yellow pine), Weymouth-den (cork pine, melancholy pine, Weymouth pine, white pine, yellow pine), partiële onderzoekpuls, geldigheidspuls. (various references)

Finnish

strobusmänty (cork pine, melancholy pine, Weymouth pine, white pine, yellow pine), vilkkumerkki, poimin, poimia (extract, gather, glean, pick pick out). (various references)

French

strober, strobe, signal d'échantillonnage, tube stroboscopique (strobe lamp, strobotron), pin Weymouth. (various references)

German

abtasten (feel, Frisk, palpate, read off, sample, sampling, scan, sense, size up, sound out, suss out, to read off, to sense). (various references)

Greek 

στροβός, στροβοσκοπικός σημαντήρας, παλμός-δείγμα. (various references)

Hungarian

választó impulzus. (various references)

Italian

segnale di riferimento (set point, set value), punto luminoso discontinuo, pino Weymouth (cork pine, melancholy pine, Weymouth pine, white pine, yellow pine), pino strobo (cork pine, melancholy pine, Weymouth pine, white pine, yellow pine), campionare (sample). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ストレプトマイシン難聴 (bird of paradise flower, strangeness, stranger, straw, straw hat, Strelitzia reginae, streptomycin deafness, stroke, stroke play). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ストローブ . (various references)

Pig Latin

obestray

Portuguese

sinal de validação, seleccionar, pinheiro-do-lorde (cork pine, melancholy pine, Weymouth pine, white pine, yellow pine), pinheiro-de-Weymouth (cork pine, melancholy pine, Weymouth pine, white pine, yellow pine), pinheiro-branco-do-canadá (cork pine, melancholy pine, Weymouth pine, white pine, yellow pine), marca de referência (benchmark, reference mark). (various references)

Russian 

стробоскопический источник света, строб стробирующий, строб. (various references)

Spanish

seleccionar una señal en el tiempo, marca estroboscópica, estrobo (strap, strop). (various references)

Swedish

stroboskop (stroboscope), stroba, strob, weymouthtall (cork pine, melancholy pine, Weymouth pine, white pine, yellow pine), valideringspuls, Pinus strobus L. (cork pine, melancholy pine, Weymouth pine, white pine, yellow pine), elektronblixt (electronic flash). (various references)

Turkish

stroboskop, radar ekranındaki işaretleme halkası. (various references)

strobos. (various references)

Pinus nivea Booth, Pinus strobus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "strobe": strobes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Strobe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: astrobelt, estorbo, Sgriob, soroban, sterbae, stobe, stribe, strob, strobed, strober, strobl, strole, strone, stroob, stroobe, Strube, Strubig, strue, trobe, Tshombe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sorbet.

-1 letter: besot, bores, borts, brose, robes, roset, rotes, sober, store, tores, torse.

-2 letters: best, bets, bore, bort, bots, bros, eros, erst, obes, orbs, ores, orts, rebs, rest, rets, robe, robs, roes, rose, rote, rots, sorb, sore, sort, stob, toes, tore, tors.

-3 letters: bet, bos, bot, bro, ers, obe, oes, orb, ore, ors, ort, ose.

+1 letter: bestrow, bettors, boaster, boaters, bolster, bolters, booster, borates, bortzes, bothers, debtors, lobster, mobster, obtuser, obverts, orbiest, rebatos, reboots, sorbate, sorbent, sorbets, strobes.

+2 letters: abettors, aborters, baronets, bestrode, bestrown, bestrows, bethorns, betroths, bisector, bloaters, blotters, boasters, bolsters, bookrest, boosters, bornites, botchers, botryose, bottlers, broadest, brockets, bromates, brothels, brothers, brownest, burstone, cabestro, cabresto, deorbits, doubters, lobsters, mobsters, obtrudes, orbiters, overbets, potherbs, probates, redoubts, reitboks, robuster, saboteur, soberest, sobriety, sorbates, sorbents, sortable, storable, strobile, taborers, taborets, temblors, theorbos, troubles, tuberose, tuberous.