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- noun Plural form of
stroboscope .
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A workbench displayed a fantastic array of half-assembled or disassembled instruments and gadgets, some of which-intended eventually for Qubwa's mind-lab-were or would be tools for the measuring of forces and stresses other than those of mass, space and time; and in and about the general clutter stood devices of hypnotic or brainwashing natures, ranging from revolving mirrors and faceted crystals through common stroboscopes to a small pulse-laser.
Psychosphere Lumley, Brian 1984
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A professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between the wars, Edgerton pioneered the use of stroboscopes and flash to capture high speed movement.
euronews 2010
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