holodeck
/hˈɑlədˌɛk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.35 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A room that provides holographic simulations for recreation, training, etc.
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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."
- "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[.]"
- "Building a holodeck will require breakthroughs in sensors, robotics, and mechanical interfaces […]"
- "In such a world, would one want to be hooked up to a pleasure machine or live on a holodeck?"