hologram

English

Alternative forms

• hologramme

Etymology

holo- +‎ -gram, from Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + γραμμή (grammḗ, “letter, line”), coined by Hungarian-born British scientist Dennis Gabor in 1948, the 1971 Nobel prize winner in physics for his work in holography.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɒləɡɹæm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

hologram (plural holograms)

1. A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography.

   Synonym: holograph

   • 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 233:

     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.

Derived terms

• ID hologram

Related terms

• holograph
• holography
• holon
• light field

Translations

three-dimensional image created by holography

• Aragonese: holograma m
• Catalan: holograma (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 全息圖／全息图 (quánxītú)

• Czech: hologram m
• Dutch: hologram (nl) n
• Finnish: hologrammi (fi)
• French: hologramme (fr) m
• German: Hologramm (de) n
• Greek: ολόγραμμα (el) n (ológramma)
• Hungarian: hologram (hu)
• Irish: holagram m
• Polish: hologram (pl) m
• Portuguese: holograma m
• Romanian: hologramă (ro) f
• Russian: гологра́мма (ru) f (golográmma)
• Sicilian: alugramma m, ulugramma m
• Spanish: holograma (es) m
• Swedish: hologram (sv) n
• Ukrainian: гологра́ма f (holohráma)
• Welsh: hologram m

Further reading

• holography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Czech

Etymology

From holo- +‎ -gram.

Noun

hologram m inan

1. hologram

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “hologram”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• hologram in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Danish

Noun

hologram n (singular definite hologrammet, plural indefinite hologrammer)

1. hologram [1969]

Declension

Declension of hologram

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hologram	hologrammet	hologrammer	hologrammerne
genitive	holograms	hologrammets	hologrammers	hologrammernes

References

• “hologram” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed, probably from English. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɦoː.loːˈɣrɑm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ho‧lo‧gram
• Rhymes: -ɑm

Noun

hologram n (plural hologrammen)

1. hologram, hologramme [from 1960]

Related terms

• holografie
• holografisch

Polish

hologram sense 1

hologram sense 2

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English hologram, French hologramme, German Hologramm, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos) + γραμμή (grammḗ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xɔˈlɔɡ.ram/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔɡram
• Syllabification: ho‧log‧ram

Noun

hologram m inan (related adjective hologramowy)

2. (photography) hologram (recording of an interference pattern that can reproduce a 3D light field using diffraction)
4. security hologram (shiny metallic mark placed on a product, banknote, or document, allowing it to be recognized as original)

Declension

Declension of hologram

	singular	plural
nominative	hologram	hologramy
genitive	hologramu	hologramów
dative	hologramowi	hologramom
accusative	hologram	hologramy
instrumental	hologramem	hologramami
locative	hologramie	hologramach
vocative	hologramie	hologramy

Further reading

• hologram in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hologram in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• hologram in PWN's encyclopedia

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɔlɔɡram]

Noun

hologram m inan (genitive singular hologramu, nominative plural hologramy, genitive plural hologramov, declension pattern of dub)

1. hologram

Declension

Declension of hologram

	singular	plural
nominative	hologram	hologramy
genitive	hologramu	hologramov
dative	hologramu	hologramom
accusative	hologram	hologramy
locative	holograme	hologramoch
instrumental	hologramom	hologrammi

References

• “hologram”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swedish

Noun

hologram n

1. hologram

Declension

Declension of hologram
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	hologram	hologrammet	hologram	hologrammen
Genitive	holograms	hologrammets	holograms	hologrammens