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Plural of strobe

regular plural

The plural of strobe is strobes.

Forms of strobe

Singularstrobe /stɹəʊb/
Pluralstrobes
Countablecountable

Strobes in a sentence

  • Strobes and smoke created curtains of imminent light.1997, Mark Waugh, Come. From the entry drapetomania
  • Artificial light sources such as photofloods, electronic strobes, quartz-halogen lamps and regular light bulbs radiate a good deal of infrared (fluorescent light contains very little).1984 August 26, Sandy Sorlein, “Camera: Guidelines for the Use of Infrared Films”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry quartz-halogen lamp
  • Snoots have traditionally been round in shape when attached to studio strobes, but with flash photography, they have taken on a more rectangular shape because the flash heads are rectangular.2014 December 26, Alyn Stafford, Flash Techniques for Location Portraiture: Single and Multiple-Flash Lighting Techniques, Amherst Media…. From the entry snoot

Meaning of strobe

  1. noun A stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light.
  2. noun An electronic signal in hardware indicating that a value is ready to be read.
  3. verb To flash like a stroboscopic lamp.

Full definition of strobe

Questions about the plural of strobe

What is the plural of strobe?
The plural of strobe is strobes.
Is strobe countable?
Strobe is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: strobe (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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