strobe

About 0.44 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light.
2. noun A pulse of light, such as from a flashing or rotating light source.
3. noun An electronic signal in hardware indicating that a value is ready to be read.

   a memory strobe; a data strobe

4. verb To flash like a stroboscopic lamp.

Similar words

signal shrapnel flash flash-forward stroboscope videostroboscope stroboscopy photoflash flashgun photostimulator

Often followed by

light lights talbott is and signal pulse lighting to

Word family

strobes