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holodeck

holodeck noun: a room that provides holographic simulations for recreation, training, etc.

Noun

holodeck (plural holodecks)

  1. A room that provides holographic simulations for recreation, training, etc.
    • […] the fact that science-fiction film, and indeed much — if not most — contemporary film, has become a technology on the way to somewhere else, whether that goal turns out to be immersive, interactive, or some holodeck-style fusion of the two.1999, Annette Kuhn, Alien Zone II: The Spaces of Science-fiction Cinema
    • Computer music might someday replace acoustic music made by human beings, but that time is far away, waiting either for Holodecks to be perfected or for a generation of listeners to arrive who are too busy and too uninvolved with their ambient surroundings to want to relate to them[.]1999 June, Al Stevens, “Jukebox: Covering the Basses”, in Dr. Dobb's Journal, volume 24, number 6, San Francisco, Calif.: Miller Freeman, Inc., →ISSN, page 115

Examples of holodeck in a sentence

  • Building a holodeck will require breakthroughs in sensors, robotics, and mechanical interfaces […]2002, Kay M Stanney, Handbook of virtual environments:
  • In such a world, would one want to be hooked up to a pleasure machine or live on a holodeck?2007, Fritz Allhoff, Patrick Lin, James Moor, Nanoethics:

Forms of holodeck

pluralholodecks
alternative formHolodeck

Origin of holodeck

From holo- + deck, coined in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Questions about holodeck

What does holodeck mean?
Holodeck means a room that provides holographic simulations for recreation, training, etc.
How do you use holodeck in a sentence?
Building a holodeck will require breakthroughs in sensors, robotics, and mechanical interfaces […]
What part of speech is holodeck?
Holodeck is a noun.
What is the plural of holodeck?
The plural of holodeck is holodecks.

Words near holodeck in the dictionary

  1. holocurtinol
  2. holocyclic
  3. holocytochrome
  4. holocytochromes
  5. Holod
  6. holodeck
  7. holodecks
  8. holodets
  9. holodiastolic
  10. holodimer
  11. holodimers

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