Hologram
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
- 2 the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography wordnet
Example
More examples"I can speculate all I want about the nature of the universe and "reality," but such would be just speculation. I can say that our reality is like a computer simulation. I can say that our reality is like a hologram. I can say that our reality is like a dream. There are many more I-can-say's. They are speculations. As humans, we are like rabbits in that even if higher beings were to tell us the truth, we still might not understand."
Etymology
From holo- + -gram, from Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + γρᾰ́μμᾰ (grắmmă, “that which is written/drawn”), coined by Hungarian-born British scientist Dennis Gabor in 1948, the 1971 Nobel prize winner in physics for his work in holography.