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Relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts.
🌱Environmental scientists tend to be holistic in their views, even when they're only studying a tiny patch of ground. 🌳"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" expresses the essence of holism, a term coined by the great South African general and statesman Jan Smuts in 1926. Holism generally opposes the Western tendency toward analysis, the breaking down of wholes into parts sometimes to the point that "you can't see the forest for the trees." Holism is an important concept in the sciences and social sciences, and especially in medicine. Holistic medicine tries to treat the "whole person" rather than focusing too narrowly on single symptoms. It emphasizes the connections between the mind and the body, avoids the overuse of drugs, and has borrowed such practices from Eastern traditions as acupuncture and yoga. hologram A three-dimensional image reproduced from a pattern of interference produced by a beam of radiation such as a laser.
🌱When holograms are used for data storage, the entire bulk of the storage material can be used rather than just its surface. 🌳A hologram is a picture of a "whole" object, showing it in three dimensions. We've all seen cheap holographic images on credit cards and ID cards （where they help prevent copying）. Far more impressive are large holograms that take the form of a ghostly 3-D moving figure that you can walk around to see from all angles. Holograms were invented in 1947 but only perfected after the invention of the laser in 1960. Today they're used in such technologies as compact-disc players and checkout scanners, and holograms can be created of the inside of live internal organs to permit doctors to examine the organs in great detail. And soon televisions with hologram technology may enable us to watch in "3-D." Holocene Of, relating to, or being the present geologic epoch.
🌱As the Holocene epoch began, the glaciers were swiftly retreating, forests were taking over the bare land, and human beings were moving northward again in large numbers. 🌳To geologists, we live today in the Holocene epoch, the period that began about 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, when humans first began practicing agriculture. But what does Holocene have to do with "whole"? Well, in geological language, the Holocene epoch follows the Paleocene （"remotely recent"）, the Eocene （"early recent"）, the Oligocene （"scarcely recent"）, the Miocene （"less recent"）, the Pliocene （"more recent"）, and the Pleistocene （"most recent"） epochs—so the Holocene is the "wholly recent" period of geological time. holocaust 1、（usually capitalized） The mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II.
2、 A thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life, especially through fire.
🌱Her parents had escaped the Holocaust in Poland by fleeing into the forest and surviving there with hundreds of others for two years. 🌳The Greek word holokaustos means "burnt whole." For the early Jews who followed the laws given in the first books of the Bible, a holocaust was a sacrifice to God, the burning on an altar of a lamb, goat, or young bull. The word is used about 200 times in the traditional Greek version of the Old Testament, though it rarely appears in English translations. In the 1700s holocaust began to be used to refer to the mass destruction of life. But no mass murder in Western history ever approached the scale achieved by the Nazis. As many as 6 million Jews may have died at their hands; when the slaughter of non-Jews is included, the number of murdered victims may have amounted to over 15 million.
🌱Environmental scientists tend to be holistic in their views, even when they're only studying a tiny patch of ground. 🌳"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" expresses the essence of holism, a term coined by the great South African general and statesman Jan Smuts in 1926. Holism generally opposes the Western tendency toward analysis, the breaking down of wholes into parts sometimes to the point that "you can't see the forest for the trees." Holism is an important concept in the sciences and social sciences, and especially in medicine. Holistic medicine tries to treat the "whole person" rather than focusing too narrowly on single symptoms. It emphasizes the connections between the mind and the body, avoids the overuse of drugs, and has borrowed such practices from Eastern traditions as acupuncture and yoga. hologram A three-dimensional image reproduced from a pattern of interference produced by a beam of radiation such as a laser.
🌱When holograms are used for data storage, the entire bulk of the storage material can be used rather than just its surface. 🌳A hologram is a picture of a "whole" object, showing it in three dimensions. We've all seen cheap holographic images on credit cards and ID cards （where they help prevent copying）. Far more impressive are large holograms that take the form of a ghostly 3-D moving figure that you can walk around to see from all angles. Holograms were invented in 1947 but only perfected after the invention of the laser in 1960. Today they're used in such technologies as compact-disc players and checkout scanners, and holograms can be created of the inside of live internal organs to permit doctors to examine the organs in great detail. And soon televisions with hologram technology may enable us to watch in "3-D." Holocene Of, relating to, or being the present geologic epoch.
🌱As the Holocene epoch began, the glaciers were swiftly retreating, forests were taking over the bare land, and human beings were moving northward again in large numbers. 🌳To geologists, we live today in the Holocene epoch, the period that began about 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, when humans first began practicing agriculture. But what does Holocene have to do with "whole"? Well, in geological language, the Holocene epoch follows the Paleocene （"remotely recent"）, the Eocene （"early recent"）, the Oligocene （"scarcely recent"）, the Miocene （"less recent"）, the Pliocene （"more recent"）, and the Pleistocene （"most recent"） epochs—so the Holocene is the "wholly recent" period of geological time. holocaust 1、（usually capitalized） The mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II.
2、 A thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life, especially through fire.
🌱Her parents had escaped the Holocaust in Poland by fleeing into the forest and surviving there with hundreds of others for two years. 🌳The Greek word holokaustos means "burnt whole." For the early Jews who followed the laws given in the first books of the Bible, a holocaust was a sacrifice to God, the burning on an altar of a lamb, goat, or young bull. The word is used about 200 times in the traditional Greek version of the Old Testament, though it rarely appears in English translations. In the 1700s holocaust began to be used to refer to the mass destruction of life. But no mass murder in Western history ever approached the scale achieved by the Nazis. As many as 6 million Jews may have died at their hands; when the slaughter of non-Jews is included, the number of murdered victims may have amounted to over 15 million.
HOL/HOLO, meaning "whole," comes from the Greek word holos, with the same meaning. The root can be found in catholic. When capitalized, Catholic refers to the worldwide Christian church based in Rome, which was once the "whole"—that is, the only—Christian church. Without the capital letter, catholic means simply "universal" or, when describing a person, "broad in one's interests or tastes."🌸