multiflash

adjective

mul·​ti·​flash ˌməl-tē-ˈflash 

-ˌtī-

photography

: using or produced with the use of more than one flash (see flash entry 2 sense 6f) either at the same time or in rapid succession

Multiflash pictures that freeze successive steps of high-speed motion will be used this fall to demonstrate mechanical movements and teach fundamental laws of physics to first-year engineering students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

—Popular Science

Word History

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above