noun
Meaning 1
A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: holograph
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hologram
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɒləɡɹæm/
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General-American: /ˈhɑləˌɡɹæm/
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General-American: [ˈhɑləˌɡɹɛəm] /æ/ raising
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Australian: /ˈhɔləɡɹæm/
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New-Zealand: /ˈhɒləɡɹɛm/
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New-Zealand: [ˈhɔ̟ləɡɹɛm]
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CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 L AH0 G R AE2 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: holograph
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: photograph, photo, exposure, picture, pic
History
Etymology
From holo- + -gram, from Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + γρᾰ́μμᾰ (grắmmă, “that which is written or drawn”), coined by Hungarian-born British scientist Dennis Gabor in 1948, the Nobel prize winner in physics in 1971 for his work in holography.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Aragonese: holograma — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Catalan: holograma — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Chinese Mandarin: 全息圖 /全息图 (quánxītú) — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Czech: hologram — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Dutch: hologram — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Finnish: hologrammi — three-dimensional image created by holography
- French: hologramme — three-dimensional image created by holography
- German: Hologramm — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Greek: ολόγραμμα (ológramma) — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Hindi: होलोग्राम (hologrām) — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Hungarian: hologram — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Indonesian: hologram — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Irish: holagram — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Japanese: ホログラム (horoguramu) — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Korean: 홀로그램 (hollogeuraem) — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Persian: هولوگرام (hologerâm) — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Polish: hologram — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Portuguese: holograma — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Romanian: hologramă — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Russian: гологра́мма (golográmma) — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Sicilian: alugramma — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Sicilian: ulugramma — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Spanish: holograma — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Swahili: hologramu — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Swedish: hologram — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Turkish: hologram — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Ukrainian: гологра́ма (holohráma) — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Vietnamese: ảnh nổi ba chiều — three-dimensional image created by holography
- Welsh: hologram — three-dimensional image created by holography
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