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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to the stroboscope, to observations made with it, or to the physical principle involved in its use.

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  • adjective of, relating to, or produced by a stroboscope

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Examples

  • But this so-called stroboscopic phenomenon, however interesting it was, seemed to offer hardly any difficulty.

    The Photoplay A Psychological Study Hugo M��nsterberg 1889

  • The mixture of snippets of idealism and calculation created a kind of stroboscopic signalling of truth emanating from the White House.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Frum on Rove: 2007

  • It was a horrible kind of stroboscopic experience watching your son age prematurely.

    The Book of Honor: Covert Lives & Classified Deaths at the CIA 2000

  • That might also serve as a description for Andy Warhol's "The Velvet Underground in Boston," a half-hour document of the legendary rock act's 1967 performance at a Boston club that captures the notion of "exploding plastic inevitable" in all its stroboscopic speed-freak glory.

    A Cinematic Diet Loaded With Preservatives Steve Dollar 2010

  • Mr. Jones sought, he said, to overload viewers with "photo cut-outs and stroboscopic color combined to induce retinal after-images and create unique color sequences."

    When Video Frightened the Radio Star Bruce Bennett 2011

  • Aficionados of the pulp Italian genre known as giallo will be nodding their heads in recognition at new French movie Amer – a striking, stylish new horror that borrows liberally from the likes of Dario Argento, with its stroboscopic montage, extreme close-ups and stylised colour schemes.

    This week's new film events 2011

  • He revels in stroboscopic imagery and squealing, rapid-fire, argumentative incoherence even his characters' sped-up tantrums are pitched to Valley-girl-inflected Chipmunkese.

    Video Artist on Pause, Prodigies in Play Lance Esplund 2011

  • The brief effort revisits a family trip to Rome in the 1970s, in which ambient travel footage is made over into stroboscopic visual loops, at once hypnotic and heightened in perception.

    Waking Lives, Dream States Steve Dollar 2011

  • The innate innocence of small-scale pyrotechnics are undermined by the paradoxical beauty of wartime bombardments, as the stroboscopic work fizzles out with a significant whimper.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • A stroboscopic dream machine sounds about as intriguing as can be, especially when its maker served as mentor (and allegedly pot-smoking companion) to the likes of David Bowie, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Patti Smith at his artistic-subculture outpost in 222 Bowery -- just across the street from where the New Museum now stands.

    ARTINFO: The Top Ten Shows to See In New York City 2010

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