stroboscope

English

Etymology

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

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 (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.