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Noun

holograph (plural holographs)

• (law, textual criticism) A handwritten document that is solely the work of the person whose signature it bears, especially a letter, deed, or will; an original manuscript, a protograph.
• A hologram.
  • ✤ But when a holograph is placed backwards in its holder and illuminated with laser light, it can produce a real image […]¹
  • ✤ Producing a holograph involves illumination of an object through the use of intersecting laser beams.²
  • ✤ Of course, it is impossible to show what a holograph is really like in a two dimensional picture such as this.³

Verb

holograph (third-person singular simple present holographs, present participle holographing, simple past and past participle holographed)

• To record by means of holography.

Adjective

holograph (not comparable)

• (of a document) Handwritten by the person whose signature it bears.
  • ✤ The will was holograph, for Mr. Utterson, though he took charge of it now that it was made, had refused to lend the least assistance in the making of it;⁴

Etymology

From holo- +‎ -graph.

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Footnotes

1. 1966, Electronic Design, volume 14, numbers 14-17, page 18: ↩

2. 1972, Army Research and Development, volumes 13-14, page 10: ↩

3. 1983, Ellen Nevins, Encyclopedia of Computers and Electronics, page 108: ↩

4. 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: ↩