microflash
microflash noun: a flash of extremely short duration.
Noun
microflash (plural microflashes)
- A flash of extremely short duration.
- A microflash unit typically has two tubes with a variable delay unit to provide two timed flashes. Optical coupling of the flash tubes gives an equivalent spatial position to avoid parallax of shadows.1999, Sidney Ray, Scientific Photography and Applied Imaging, page 31
- Repetitive exposures from the same field allow unequivocal separation of noise from microflashes.2015, Frank H. Johnson, Yata Haneda, Bioluminescence in Progress, page 283
Forms of microflash
| plural | microflashes |
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Origin of microflash
From micro- + flash.
Questions about microflash
- What does microflash mean?
- Microflash means a flash of extremely short duration.
- What part of speech is microflash?
- Microflash is a noun.
- What is the plural of microflash?
- The plural of microflash is microflashes.
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