stroboscope

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στρόβος (stróbos, “whirl”) and Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō, “examine, inspect, look to or into, consider”). From strobo- +‎ scope.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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stroboscope

Wikipedia

stroboscope (plural stroboscopes)

1. Instrument for studying or observing periodic movement by rendering a moving body visible only at regular intervals.
2. A lamp that produces short bursts of light that synchronizes with a camera shutter for photographing fast-moving objects.
3. A photograph produced by such a machine.

Translations

instrument for studying or observing periodic movement by rendering a moving body visible only at regular intervals

Arabic: مُصْطَرِبَة f (muṣṭariba) Belarusian: страбаскоп m (strabaskóp) Bulgarian: стробоскоп m (stroboskop) Catalan: estroboscopi m Chinese: Mandarin: 頻閃觀測器 / 频闪观测器 (pínshǎnguāncèqì) Czech: stroboskop (cs) m Danish: stroboskop n Dutch: stroboscoop (nl) m Esperanto: stroboskopo Estonian: stroboskoop Finnish: stroboskooppi French: stroboscope (fr) m Georgian: სტრობოსკოპი (sṭrobosḳoṗi) German: Stroboskop (de) n Greek: στροβοσκόπιο (el) n (strovoskópio) Hebrew: סטרובוסקופ (he) m (stroboskóp) Hungarian: stroboszkóp (hu) Italian: stroboscopio m Japanese: ストロボスコープ (ja) (sutorobosukōpu) Korean: 스트로보 스코프 (seuteurobo seukopeu) Latvian: stroboskops m Lithuanian: stroboskopas m Norwegian: Bokmål: stroboskop n Nynorsk: stroboskop n Polish: stroboskop (pl) m Portuguese: estroboscópio (pt) m Romanian: stroboscop (ro) n Russian: стробоско́п (ru) m (stroboskóp) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: стробоскоп m Roman: stroboskop (sh) m Slovak: stroboskop m Slovene: stroboskop m Spanish: estroboscopio (es) m Swedish: stroboskop n Turkish: aralıgözler, stroboskop (tr) Ukrainian: стробоскоп m (stroboskop)

French

Etymology

From strobo- +‎ -scope.

Pronunciation

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Noun

stroboscope m (plural stroboscopes)

1. stroboscope

Derived terms

• stroboscopie
• stroboscopique

Further reading

• “stroboscope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.