Word.ws English Dictionary

stroboscope

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

Noun

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.

stroboscope meaning in Tamil and Arabic

stroboscope in Tamil

சுழனிலைகாட்டி, நகா பொருள் நிலைக்காட்டி, ஒளியுணாவேக நோக்கி, இணக்கவேகங்காட்டி, ஒளியுணாவேக அளவி, ஸ்ட்ராபோஸ்கோப்

stroboscope in Arabic

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

Forms of stroboscope

pluralstroboscopes

Origin of stroboscope

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

Words formed from stroboscope

Questions about stroboscope

What does stroboscope mean?
Stroboscope means instrument for studying or observing periodic movement by rendering a moving body visible only at regular intervals.
What is stroboscope in Tamil?
Stroboscope in Tamil is சுழனிலைகாட்டி, நகா பொருள் நிலைக்காட்டி, ஒளியுணாவேக நோக்கி. See Stroboscope meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stroboscope?
Stroboscope is a noun.
What is the plural of stroboscope?
The plural of stroboscope is stroboscopes.

Words near stroboscope in the dictionary

  1. Stroble
  2. Strobles
  3. Strobls
  4. strobo-
  5. strobogrammatic
  6. stroboscope
  7. stroboscopes
  8. stroboscopic
  9. stroboscopical
  10. stroboscopically
  11. stroboscopy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stroboscope (page history and authors); stroboscope (Tamil 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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-stroboscope.wav.

Cite this entry: “stroboscope.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stroboscope. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.