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holocube

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From holo- +‎ cube.

Noun

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holocube (plural holocubes)

  1. (science fiction) A cube-shaped device that shows or stores holographic pictures.
    • 1976, Joe Haldeman, The Forever War, New York: Ballantine Books, page 113:
      One wall was a huge holo cube displaying Geneva's table of organization, a spidery orange pyramid with tens of thousands of names connected by lines, from the mayor at the top to the “corridor security” people at the base.
    • 1978, Charles Sheffield, “The Deimos Plague”, in Stellar Science Fiction Stories, n 4, New York: Del Rey, p 146:
      He snapped a holo-cube into the projector and switched on. I gasped and shrank back in my seat as a great crustacean sprang into being in front of me, blind, chitinous, rust-red, and malevolent.
    • 1990, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 79, page 113:
      And on a little table beside the bed, he found a holocube with a tiny picture of a woman wearing a yellow dress in it. When he moved the ’cube, the woman waved at him and laughed.
    • 1992, Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, The Positronic Man, New York: Doubleday, p 25:
      Not a cassette, not an infodisk, not a holocube, but an actual book, with a cover and binding and pages.
      Used in Flashback: The Quest for Identity (video game), Star Wars, Tyrian, and Spider-Man (1994 TV series).