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plural strobes
A stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light. quotations examples
White all light sources illuminate the subject, the strobe both illuminates and "freezes" the subject.
2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, page 59
(computing) An electronic signal in hardware indicating that a value is ready to be read. examples
third-person singular simple present strobes, present participle strobing, simple past and past participle strobed
To flash like a stroboscopic lamp. quotations examples
... as they fuck she quakes, body strobing miles beneath him in cream and night-blue, all sound suppressed, eyes in crescents behind gold lashes...
1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Here was a blazingly erotic sex star par excellence as Travolta gyrated around that strobing disco dance floor like a cock-o'-the-walk.
1986, Sam Frank, Sex in the Movies
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 lights strobe - something that could cause serious issues for drivers running at high speeds.
2023 November 29, Peter Plisner, “The winds of change in Catesby Tunnel”, in RAIL, number 997, page 58