Definitions

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  • noun science fiction A holographic projection of a series of images, like a video recording.

Etymologies

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holo- +‎ vid

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Examples

  • “Myles helped us out, and your father made a holovid so he could say good-bye properly.”

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • His thoughts were elsewhere: in his mind he was sitting in the living room with his mother, watching the holovid of his dead father….

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • Just what Jim needed so he could stop thinking about Doc—and, even closer to his heart, about Shiloh, and his mother, and that damned holovid.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • “Myles helped us out, and your father made a holovid so he could say good-bye properly.”

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • Just what Jim needed so he could stop thinking about Doc—and, even closer to his heart, about Shiloh, and his mother, and that damned holovid.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • His thoughts were elsewhere: in his mind he was sitting in the living room with his mother, watching the holovid of his dead father….

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • I sure wish I could be looking better for my only holovid recording, but these damn doctors say I need all these things.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • I sure wish I could be looking better for my only holovid recording, but these damn doctors say I need all these things.

    Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

  • I think it's easy to imagine a character in a science fiction story watching a movie or holovid (or listening to a podcast or even reading a frickin 'book) about first contact with an alien species even though the characters world has no alien life.

    I hate to admit it joshenglish 2007

  • Oh, I think he would be demanding holovid of that ….

    Love in Black & White… 2006

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