holocube

English

Alternative forms

• holo cube
• holo-cube

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *solh₂wós

Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos)der.

English holo-

English cube

English holocube

From holo- + cube.

Noun

holocube (plural holocubes)

1. (science fiction) A cube-shaped device that shows or stores holographic pictures.
   • 1976, Joe Haldeman, The Forever War, New York: Ballantine Books, page 113:

     One wall was a huge holo cube displaying Geneva's table of organization, a spidery orange pyramid with tens of thousands of names connected by lines, from the mayor at the top to the “corridor security” people at the base.

   • 1978, Charles Sheffield, “The Deimos Plague”, in Stellar Science Fiction Stories, n 4, New York: Del Rey, p 146:

     He snapped a holo-cube into the projector and switched on. I gasped and shrank back in my seat as a great crustacean sprang into being in front of me, blind, chitinous, rust-red, and malevolent.

   • 1990, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 79, page 113:

     And on a little table beside the bed, he found a holocube with a tiny picture of a woman wearing a yellow dress in it. When he moved the ’cube, the woman waved at him and laughed.

   • 1992, Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, The Positronic Man, New York: Doubleday, page 25:

     Not a cassette, not an infodisk, not a holocube, but an actual book, with a cover and binding and pages.

     Used in Flashback: The Quest for Identity (video game), Star Wars, Tyrian, and Spider-Man (1994 TV series).