a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Relating to, of the nature of, the stroboscope.
1846. Hoblyn, Dict. Sci. Terms, Stroboscopic Plates, an apparatus invented by Stampfer of Vienna, by which an impression is produced on the retina of an uninterrupted line of light by the rapid motion of a luminous object.
1873. Dolbear, in Prescott, Telephone (1879), 263. This was done by filling an organ bellows with smoke, and examining it through a stroboscopic disk while escaping from the pipe.
1874. Pop. Sci. Rev., XIII. 105. The Stroboscopic Determination of the Pitch of Tones.
1883. Science, I. 72/1. A new stroboscopic method in which a fork is … kept in vibration by electro-magnets.
Also Stroboscopical a. = prec.
1836. R. D. & T. Thomson’s Rec. Gen. Sci., III. 114. Stroboscope.—Stampfer has invented some interesting stroboscopical tables, or glasses, founded upon a similar principle with the thaumatoscopical figures.
1877. Catal. Spec. Collect. Sci. Apparatus S. Kens. Mus. (ed. 3), 1046. Stroboscopical discs on the systems of Dove, Poggendorff, &c.
