Sentence examples for stroboscope from inspiring English sources
noun
Instrument for studying or observing periodic movement by rendering a moving body visible only at regular intervals.
The modern electronic stroboscope employs a gas-filled discharge lamp to produce very short, repetitive, brilliant flashes of light.
The brilliant short-duration flash produced by a stroboscope is admirably suited for photographing rapidly moving objects.
The xenon flash could also emit repeated bursts of light at regular and very brief intervals and was thus an ideal stroboscope.
The stroboscope, an instrument that illuminates rotating objects so that they appear to have stopped moving, can be used as a tachometer.
A darkened side gallery includes three small tabletop fountains whose sprays and drops of water are reduced to crystalline slow-motion by strobe lights, a bit of kinetic art that recalls the historic stroboscope photographs of Harold Edgerton.
On one occasion, Kemp was performing in Seville and he began spinning down the stage, a stroboscope giving his wild movements a calm suspension.
We had one wonderful scene with a stroboscope, and right in the middle of it the doors at the back of the theatre burst open and in poured four policemen with their dogs.
Perhaps the most famous early use of the stroboscope was in a lawsuit between Lever Brothers and Procter & Gamble on rival methods of making soap powder, the CD-ROM recounts.
His main tool was the stroboscope, which he perfected in 1931.
Like the electronic flash on a camera, the stroboscope fired a brilliant light.
Stroboscope, instrument that provides intermittent illumination of a rotating or vibrating object in order to study the motion of the object or to determine its rotary speed or vibration frequency.
