hologram

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

holo- + -gram, from Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, whole) + γραμμή (grammḗ, letter, line), coined by Hungarian-born British scientist Dennis Gabor in 1948, the 1971 Nobel prize winner in physics for his work in holography.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɒləɡɹæm/
  • (file)

Noun

hologram (plural holograms)

  1. A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography.
    Synonym: holograph
    • 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 233:
      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.

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Czech

Etymology

From holo- + -gram.

Noun

hologram m inan

  1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • hologram in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
  • hologram in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Danish

Noun

hologram n (singular definite hologrammet, plural indefinite hologrammer)

  1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) [1969]

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References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed, probably from English. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɦoː.loːˈɣrɑm/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ho‧lo‧gram
  • Rhymes: -ɑm

Noun

hologram n (plural hologrammen)

  1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), hologramme [from 1960]

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɦɔlɔɡram]

Noun

hologram m inan (genitive singular hologramu, nominative plural hologramy, genitive plural hologramov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Declension

References

  • hologram”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swedish

Noun

hologram n

  1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

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