Definition of "strobic" []

• Appearing to spin.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The apparatus is actually a cinematograph, but one which gives so many pictures in the second that they entirely fuse and the strobic movement has no trace of discontinuity."
• "When produced in this way, the strobic illusion is exceedingly pretty."
• "Such an interpretation is all the more to be expected, since, as the strobic phenomena show, even discontinuous retinal processes tend to be interpreted as continuously existing objects."