stroboscope

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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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.

Translations

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

• Arabic: مُصْطَرِبَة f (muṣṭariba)
• Belarusian: страбаскоп m (strabaskóp)
• Bulgarian: стробоскоп m (stroboskop)
• Catalan: estroboscopi m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 頻閃觀測器 / 频闪观测器 (pínshǎnguāncèqì)

• Czech: stroboskop (cs) m
• Danish: stroboskop n
• Dutch: stroboscoop (nl) m
• Esperanto: stroboskopo
• Estonian: stroboskoop
• Finnish: stroboskooppi
• French: stroboscope (fr) m
• Georgian: სტრობოსკოპი (sṭrobosḳoṗi)
• German: Stroboskop (de) n
• Greek: στροβοσκόπιο (el) n (strovoskópio)
• Hebrew: סטרובוסקופ (he) m (stroboskóp)
• Hungarian: stroboszkóp (hu)
• Italian: stroboscopio m
• Japanese: ストロボスコープ (ja) (sutorobosukōpu)
• Korean: 스트로보 스코프 (seuteurobo seukopeu)
• Latvian: stroboskops m
• Lithuanian: stroboskopas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stroboskop n

  Nynorsk: stroboskop n

• Polish: stroboskop (pl) m
• Portuguese: estroboscópio (pt) m
• Romanian: stroboscop (ro) n
• Russian: стробоско́п (ru) m (stroboskóp)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стробоскоп m

  Roman: stroboskop (sh) m

• Slovak: stroboskop m
• Slovene: stroboskop m
• Spanish: estroboscopio m
• Swedish: stroboskop n
• Turkish: aralıgözler, stroboskop (tr)
• Ukrainian: стробоскоп m (stroboskop)

French

Etymology

From strobo- +‎ -scope.

Pronunciation

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Noun

stroboscope m (plural stroboscopes)

1. stroboscope

Derived terms

• stroboscopie
• stroboscopique

Further reading

• “stroboscope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.