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hologram

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈhɒləɡɹæm//
  • United States//ˈhɑləˌɡɹæm//
  • United States/[ˈhɑləˌɡɹɛəm]/
  • Australia//ˈhɔləɡɹæm//

A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography.

noun

  1. 1

    A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography.

    He turned his head and stared out to sea, longing for the hologram logo of Fuji Electric, for the drone of a helicopter, anything at all.

Etymology

From holo- + -gram, from Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + γρᾰ́μμᾰ (grắmmă, “that which is written or drawn”), coined by Hungarian-born British scientist Dennis Gabor in 1948, the Nobel prize winner in physics in 1971 for his work in holography.

Forms

plural
holograms
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).