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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
strobe

1942, shortening of stroboscope. As a shortened form of strobe light, from 1949. As an adjective from 1942.

Wiktionary
strobe

n. A stroboscopic lamp, a device used to produce regular flashes of light vb. To flash like a stroboscopic lamp.

WordNet
strobe

n. scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary [syn: stroboscope, strobe light]

Wikipedia
Strobe (comics)

Strobe is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe. She was created for the villainous team the Mutant Liberation Front (MLF).

Strobe (disambiguation)

Strobe or STROBE may refer to:

  • Strobe light
  • Flash (photography)
  • Strobe tuner A type of very accurate tuning device used to tune musical instruments and audio devices.
  • Infrared Strobe A device used to identify friendly soldiers, and or to mark enemy targets.
  • STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology
  • Strobe (Album), a music album by Side Walk Slam under the name Rob Walker.
  • Strobe ( Electronics), an auxiliary signal used to help synchronize the real data in an electrical bus when the bus components have no common clock. It can also indicate the start/end of a block of data. The strobe can be encoded with a different potential or time-length in the physical data wire. Sometimes the strobe can use a dedicated physical wire in the bus (example, the strobe pin in the parallel bus).
  • Strobe (song), a track on For Lack of a Better Name, an album by Canadian house musician, deadmau5
  • strobe.c: The first freely distributed TCP ' half-open' portscanner, written by Julian Assange in 1995 in the C programming language.
Strobe (song)

"Strobe" is a song by Canadian electronic music producer deadmau5. It is the tenth and final track on his fourth studio album For Lack of a Better Name and was released as the second single from the album on 23 February 2010. The song originated from a track titled "Then We Stood Still", which has been said to have been made in 2006. It was used in a YouTube video uploaded to Zimmerman's account a few months before its release. The song has charted at numbers 128 and 13 on the UK Singles Chart and UK Dance Chart in the United Kingdom. A live version was released exclusively through the iTunes version of his sixth studio album > album title goes here (2012).

Usage examples of "strobe".

In one hand, he held a shield that flashed brilliantly in the winking strobes.

From it gushed billows of fog, brilliantly illuminated by the maniacal flashing of strobe lights.

He peeled the key out of the tape and reinserted the tang just as more blue strobe lights lit up the plaza.

Her shields were still down and fireballs spalled her drive field like hellish strobes, but she wasnt even streaming atmosphere yet!

A slowly spreading, shaded cone of the same color radiated from the crosshair, its inmost edge moving in-system with the strobing icons.

The shaded cone continued to grow steadily, indicating the volume into which the strobing icons might have moved at their last observed acceleration and velocity since the array had lost its hard lock, and he frowned.

At their last observed velocity, the two strobing icons would drift clear to Pontifex in just over twenty hours.

Their topaz strobing revealed huge plumes of thick vapor screeching out of the processing equipment.

Above them the enormous Star-diamond is growing, changing, convoluting, while all around, the auroral backlight pulses, strobes so that rational speech and thought are becoming difficult.

Two plasma cannon blasted from the center of town, backlighting rooftops like a strobe light.

Norway outside a warehouse facing arctic whiteness with a stoicism more southerly bulbs begin strobing faintly just at the thought of.

I peeked into my survival vest as Phil chatted with one of the crew chiefs, and began to pull out all sorts of interesting items bullets, fishhooks, flashlights, strobe lights, tracers, whistles, and signaling mirrors.

The strobe light looks continuous, but cotas off-pulses for range-it tulies a journey of the absence of light.

He took his draft physical and, like Strobe, was declared 1-Y, draftable only in a national emergency.

Ironically, we were still talking when, going in excess of 80 mph down a stretch of Ventura Boulevard, I saw the flashing blue and red lights of an LAPD patrol car strobing in my rearview mirror.