stroboscope
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Instrument for studying or observing periodic movement by rendering a moving body visible only at regular intervals.
noun
A lamp that produces short bursts of light that synchronizes with a camera shutter for photographing fast-moving objects.
noun
A photograph produced by such a machine.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek στρόβος (stróbos, “whirl”) and Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō, “examine, inspect, look to or into, consider”). From strobo- + scope.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: σκοπέω