hologram
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Etymology [edit]
holo- + -gram, from Ancient Greek ὅλος (holos, “whole”) + γραμμή (gramme, “letter, line”), coined in 1964 by Hungarian-born British scientist Dennis Gabor, the 1971 Nobel prize winner in physics for his work in holography.
Noun [edit]
hologram (plural holograms)
- A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography.
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See also [edit]
- holon, coined by Arthur Koestler in The Ghost in the Machine (1967).
