What is "blinks"

Usage examples of "blinks".

In detecting a distant object, his system blinked waves, sending them not through space but into something else, in and out, in and out, on timed adjustable intervals, longer blinks to detect large objects, shorter and shorter as the search narrowed down.

He blinked in the direction of the beam and then repeated the process, the short blinks made necessary by the crowdings of the stars.

He began to have his first doubts when a series of straight vector blinks showed the line of travel to be directly toward the Cassiopeian defense lines beyond Antares.

Land area was scant, isolated volcanic tips thrust above the endlessly rolling seas, but the location of the planet saved long and tedious blinks from that sector of space back into Empire central.

Between blinks, the tech crew labored with the computer, but it was past its prime and it was all they could do to keep it operating within that plus or minus one tenth unit range.

He was allowed his moment, for Blinks were and had always been one of the prime raw materials of Texican greatness.

At first the power signal of simultaneous blinks by two thousand generators raised alarms.

The massive fleet approached with short blinks, scouting the way, line upon line of death edging ever closer.

That means no charging periods along known space routes, making a series of blinks possible, reducing the distance between, say, Earth and Texas to hours.

Nemes blinks as the temporal shock waves ripple over and through her and then surveys the frozen surroundings with the full spectrum of her vision.