microflash

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ flash

Noun

microflash (plural microflashes)

1. (photography) A flash of extremely short duration.
   • 1999, Sidney Ray, Scientific Photography and Applied Imaging, page 31:

     A microflash unit typically has two tubes with a variable delay unit to provide two timed flashes. Optical coupling of the flash tubes gives an equivalent spatial position to avoid parallax of shadows.

   • 2015, Frank H. Johnson, Yata Haneda, Bioluminescence in Progress, page 283:

     Repetitive exposures from the same field allow unequivocal separation of noise from microflashes.