FLASHING | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

flashing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

On some trials, flashing lights appear on the middle screen, prompting a reflexive movement of the eyes to that screen. From the Cambridge English Corpus Two additional measures of spatial receptive-field proper ties are provided by responses to flashing stationary circular spots and to bar motion. From the Cambridge English Corpus Observers evaluated the vividness of the complementary color and the strength of the flashing. From the Cambridge English Corpus Flashing light superimposed over a low intensity steady background was used as light stimulus. From the Cambridge English Corpus The flashing color contrast effect is, however, readily perceived for a wide range of annulus chromaticities. From the Cambridge English Corpus The pelican, however, did not dispense with the problem of how to interpret the flashing lights. From the Cambridge English Corpus After that all of them wander randomly on the screen and, when they stop, the subject is to report which dots had been flashing. From the Cambridge English Corpus If they sit up too quickly, they may see dizzily spinning rooms or bright spots flashing before their eyes. From the Cambridge English Corpus The stimulus proper ties inducing the illusion suggest that flashing anomalous color contrast may be based on asynchronous interactions among multiple visual pathways. From the Cambridge English Corpus Include a continuous sill flashing with panned-up ends and inboard leg; the waterproofing layer should counterflash the inboard leg of the flashing system. From the Cambridge English Corpus The flashing stimulus was constantly present during the totality of each trial. From the Cambridge English Corpus The subjects had either to look towards the point of the flashing light or towards the vertex at the end opposite to that flashing. From the Cambridge English Corpus Slides are projected from machines situated all around us - flashing images of the familiar and unfamiliar - more quickly than we can take them in. From the Cambridge English Corpus Conditions for whether someone should return a call also relate to the economic situation of the person flashing. From the Cambridge English Corpus The neuronal nature of scission is unclear, but may potentially be linked in flashing anomalous color contrast to an asynchrony between chromatic and achromatic pathways. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.