stroboscope

IPA: strˈoʊbʌskoʊp

Instrument for studying or observing periodic movement by rendering a moving body visible only at regular intervals.
A lamp that produces short bursts of light that synchronizes with a camera shutter for photographing fast-moving objects.
A photograph produced by such a machine.

Examples of "stroboscope" in Sentences

Until the invention of the stroboscope, scientists could not understand how hummingbirds hover.
Their method involved using a stroboscope and a laser that uses attosecond pulses to film electron motion.
The flashes were like an irregular stroboscope and the rumbling was like an enormous building was being demolished nearby.
They even have Strobe Lab, including the required lab experiments student must supply own stroboscope, rifle, ammunition, and target objects.
With a flash duration of one hundred-thousandth of a second, the stroboscope finally revealed the motion of wings that had been too fast for other cameras to capture.
Using a stroboscope, which can flash 100 times a second or more, single-image photographs can capture every split second of high-speed maneuvers such as figure skating jumps.
Using a stroboscope and laser, a team led by Swedish researcher Johan Mauritsson, assistant professor in atomic physics at Lund University, went beyond measuring the end result of an electron's interaction, they tracked and filmed its process.
In 1926 Edgerton had begun research which continued when he joined the faculty at MIT that ended with the stroboscope: illuminating spinning turbine blades with a light flashing at the same speed as they were spinning, thus “freezing” the image of a single blade for examination.