hologram
pronunciation
How to pronounce hologram in British English:
UK [ˈhɒləgræm]
How to pronounce hologram in American English:
US [ˈhɑləgræm]
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- Noun:
- the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography
Word Origin
- hologram (n.)
- 1949, coined by Hungarian-born British scientist Dennis Gabor (Gábor Dénes), 1971 Nobel prize winner in physics for his work in holography; from Greek holos "whole" (in sense of three-dimensional; see safe (adj.)) + -gram.
Example
- 1. What else the super hologram contains is an open-ended question .
- 2. In other words , pribram believes the brain is itself a hologram .
- 3. Encoding and decoding frequencies is precisely what a hologram does best .
- 4. An operator can direct the robot by moving a cursor around inside the hologram .
- 5. The " whole in every part " nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order .