stroboscope

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On one occasion, Kemp was performing in Seville and he began spinning down the stage, a stroboscope giving his wild movements a calm suspension.

From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2016

A stroboscope is set to flash every 8.00×10−5 s .

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

A stroboscope has captured the positions of the balls at fixed time intervals as they fall.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The Young, Loomis & Schuck stroboscope, which sits on a table, blinks and flickers when anybody sings out of tune in its presence, makes caterwauling detectible even to the deaf.

From Time Magazine Archive

This theory I verified by filling the bellows with smoke, and watching the motion of the escaping air and smoke with a stroboscope.

From The Telephone An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound, as Involved in Its Action by Dolbear, A. E. (Amos Emerson)