The branch of optics that deals with the use of coherent light from a laser in order to make a hologram that can then be used to create a three-dimensional image

• 3-D image-making process

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Holography is a technique for recording and reconstruction of wavefronts. Holography and holographic may also refer to: Holograph , a document written entirely in the handwriting of the person who signed it Holographic principle , a conjecture of quantum ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 19c., of writing, from holograph + -y (4); physics sense, "process of using holograms," is from 1964, coined by discoverer, Hungarian-born physicist Gábor Dénes (1900-1979), from hologram on analogy of telegraphy / telegram .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the branch of optics that deals with the use of coherent light from a laser in order to make a hologram that can then be used to create a three-dimensional image

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
holography \ho*log"ra*phy\, v. t. The process of producing holograms, usually requiring a source of coherent light, as from a laser.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context physics English) a technique for recording, and then reconstructing, the amplitude and phase distributions of a coherent wave disturbance; used to produce three-dimensional images or holograms