Definitions

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  • noun science fiction A cube-shaped device that shows or stores holographic pictures.

Etymologies

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holo- +‎ cube

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Examples

  • The cheerful, dancing oysters had vanished from the holocube.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • A hazy cloud appeared to one side of the holocube, large enough to hold two people comfortably, three close together.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • The holocube showed uneven rocky ground through thick, murky air.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Seeding 140 said, over the motionless fronds in the holocube.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • While he liked things spare, the ambassador did wish to have room for a holocube so he could look at rotating pictures of his son Alexander, his now-dead wife Jadzia, and a recent portrait of his adoptive parents.

    Doors Into Chaos Robert Greenberger 2001

  • Jim picked up the plastic holocube and turned it in the light.

    Step into Chaos Shatner, William 1999

  • What did matter was the connection That, and worse: the evidence, from his own eyes, of the impossible force that had reached into his own superbly guarded i ters and somehow manipulated the holocube itself.

    Step into Chaos Shatner, William 1999

  • Its location was lost in time, and after his experience with the holocube, he was sure that was no accident.

    Step into Chaos Shatner, William 1999

  • Unless Jim Endicott had been the force that had touched the ancient holocube ...

    Step into Chaos Shatner, William 1999

  • Then he reached into the jumble on the table and withdrew another old holocube.

    Step into Chaos Shatner, William 1999

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