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strobe

/stɹəʊb/US/stɹoʊb/

strobe noun: a stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light.

Noun

strobe (plural strobes)

  1. A stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light.
    • 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, →ISBN, page 59
  2. An electronic signal in hardware indicating that a value is ready to be read.
    • a memory strobe; a data strobe

Verb

strobe (third-person singular simple present strobes, present participle strobing, simple past and past participle strobed)

  1. To flash like a stroboscopic lamp.
    • ... 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

strobe meaning in Bengali

strobe in Bengali

ঝলকানি, কম্পমান আলো

Examples of strobe in a sentence

  • Soon, the room was alive with people dancing and singing under a haze of blue strobe lights.
  • She substituted the strobe light again, and the ghostlem swatted it out of her hand.
  • Don't like: Cruising, bars, pickles, strobe lights, chrome & glass furniture, using a want-ad to meet someone.

All 13 example sentences with strobe

Forms of strobe

Noun
pluralstrobes
Verb
third-person singular presentstrobes
present participlestrobing
past participlestrobed
paststrobed

Plural of strobe: strobes

Origin of strobe

Shortening of stroboscope.

Words formed from strobe

Phrases with strobe

Words that rhyme with strobe

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Questions about strobe

What does strobe mean?
Strobe means a stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light.
What is strobe in Bengali?
Strobe in Bengali is ঝলকানি, কম্পমান আলো. See Strobe meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is strobe?
Strobe can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce strobe?
Strobe is pronounced /stɹəʊb/ (UK).
What is the plural of strobe?
The plural of strobe is strobes.

Words near strobe in the dictionary

  1. stroam
  2. stroamed
  3. stroaming
  4. stroams
  5. stroath
  6. strobe
  7. strobe light
  8. strobe lighting
  9. strobe lights
  10. strobed
  11. Strobel

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: strobe (page history and authors); strobe (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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