Strob"o*scope (?), n. [Gr. a whirling + -scope.]

1.

An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.

2.

An optical toy similar to the phenakistoscope. See Phenakistoscope.

 

© Webster 1913.

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