Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A document written wholly in the handwriting of the person whose signature it bears.
- n. See hologram.
- adj. Variant of holographic.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Wholly written by the person in whose name it appears, as a manuscript document or letter.
- n. Any writing, as a letter, deed, testament, etc., wholly written by the person from whom it purports to proceed.
Wiktionary
- n. A hologram.
- n. A handwritten document, especially a letter, deed, or will, that is solely the work of the person whose signature it bears; a manuscript.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.
- v. To produce a holographic image of, by holography.
WordNet 3.0
- n. handwritten book or document
- n. the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography
Etymologies
- From Late Latin holographus, entirely written by the signer, from Greek holographos : holo-, holo- + -graphos, -graph.
Examples
“In "Enhancing Government," Erwin Chemerinsky provides a kind of holograph of what federalism -- as the federal-state relation is confusingly called -- would resemble if the U.S. were to enter a period of liberal ascendancy.”
“The latter book-urn shares its shelf with a photo of Gill along with the seven editions of his Almanarcana and a massive two volume bibliography of Gillâs writing output (an unpublished holograph manuscript compiled by Gill and various Vanguard researchers).”
“Gabrielle would never yen holograph-ically -- enter a place like this.”
“Captain Benteen's famous holograph letter about Little Bighorn does, in fact, contain an incidental reference to cricket, but Flashman's is the only evidence that he was an enthusiast. [p. 275] 65.”
“You don't need laser light to make a holograph, but it does get you clearer pictures.”
“And unlike an actual holograph, there was no need to turn the "plant" on or off.”
Fictionaut: The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)
“Instead, when he passed the shelf of personal belongings at the entrance to his computer area, he picked up the crystal holograph base, set it on his desk, and conjured up Tasha Yar.”
Fictionaut: The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)
“He paused, glancing toward the crystal holograph base still on Data's desk, then turned back.”
Fictionaut: The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)
“I do think, and I believe you share this world, that the cultural creatives are sometimes the people who dip between disciplines and then come up with where the holograph that we're all participating in sort of connects its separate parts.”
Interview with Stephen Larsen, author, THE FUNDAMENTALIST MIND
“Using shadowy lights and reflective glass, Clark Kent's wallflower of a suit is shown morphing, holograph-like, into the commanding, Herculean costume of Superman.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘holograph’.
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The Bindery
A list of bookbinding terms and phrases, for assembling new or repairing/reassembling old books.
perfect binding, animal glue, spine, textblock, polyvinyl acetate, double-fan adhesi..., board, backing, rounding, bone, book cloth, pasteboard and 260 more...
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Writing
graphoanalysis, agraphia, agraphic, anorthography, logagraphia, cipher, code, inscribe, penmanship, cursive, Palmer method, calligraphy and 76 more...
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My favorites
foible, sidereal, amygdala, woodnote, cogitate, silvern, ollalieberry, ramify, diaphanous, surreality, myopia, subcelestial and 64 more...
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holo-, hol-
whole; complete
oroboros NOT "hologram" Dec 20, 2006