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strobe
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strobe [strōb]
(electronics)
Intensified spot in the sweep of a deflection-type indicator, used as a reference mark for ranging or expanding the presentation.
Intensified sweep on a plan-position indicator or B-scope; such a strobe may result from certain types of interference, or it may be purposely applied as a bearing or heading marker.
Line on a console oscilloscope representing the azimuth data generated by a jammed radar site.
A signaling pulse of very short duration.


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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Throughout the shots of landscape, the Canadian flag is strobed, red and white leader is interspersed amongst the images, a French lesson is heard in which a grown man's voice is supposed to be that of an eight-year-old boy named Pierre who confidently speaks French as a citizen of Trudeau's bilingual Canada.
Carnival music and strobed camera-work accent the violent, satiric nature of the fight.
According to Yalkut, the source material for Turn, Turn, Turn came from "cybernated light-refracting sculptures (Nicholas Schoffer), moving reflected 'lumia' light (Julio LeParc), electronically controlled and strobed light (USCO), and the 'pure' electronic light which the cathode ray tube emits (Nam June Paik).
 
 
 
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