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Hollick-Kenyon Plateau

The Hollick-Kenyon Plateau is a broad, largely flat snow plateau in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, discovered from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on his 1935 trans-Antarctic flight.

Holliday Grainger

Holliday Grainger (Holliday Clark Grainger, b. 1988) is an English actress from Didsbury, Manchester, known for Lucrezia Borgia in The Borgias, Robin Ellacott in C.B. Strike, DCI Rachel Carey in The Capture, Estella in Great Expectations, and films including Mickey 17.

Holliday junction branch migration complex subunit RuvB

RuvB, the Holliday junction branch migration complex subunit (E. coli ruvB, b1860), is a bacterial AAA+ ATPase motor that with RuvA drives Holliday junction branch migration in recombination and repair.

Hollie Webb Pearne

Hollie Webb Pearne (Hollie Pearne-Webb), English field hockey defender born 1990 in Belper; Rio 2016 Olympic gold via decisive shootout goal, Tokyo 2020 bronze as GB captain, Paris 2024 quarter-finalist, 274 caps, retired 2025.

Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership

The Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) is a NIST program, created in 1988, that helps small and medium-sized U.S. manufacturers through centers in every state.

Hollis Cline

Hollis T. Cline is an American developmental neuroscientist who was a professor at Scripps Research, known for showing how visual experience guides the development of visual circuits.

Hollis Dow Hedberg

Hollis Dow Hedberg (1903–1988) was an American petroleum geologist who led exploration at Gulf Oil, taught at Princeton, and chaired the International Subcommission on Stratigraphic Classification.

Hollis Gainey

Hollis "Hoss" Gainey (1936–2017), Colorado City, Texas sprinter for the University of Texas 1957–1959; ran on world-record 440-yard (39.9) and 4x220-yard (1:22.7) relays, 1957 NCAA sixth in 100 and 200 yards, Hall of Honor 2007.

Hollis v Vabu

Hollis v Vabu Pty Ltd [2001] HCA 44; (2001) 207 CLR 21, High Court of Australia decision holding a bicycle courier was an employee, not an independent contractor, so Vabu was vicariously liable; established the totality-of-relationship test, later qualified by Personnel Contracting and ZG Operations (2022).

Hollister Co.

Hollister Co. (HCo.), an American teen and young-adult clothing retailer founded by Abercrombie & Fitch in 2000, known for its Southern California surf branding, seagull logo, dark stores, Gilly Hicks line, and TikTok-led post-2023 turnaround.

Hollister, California

Hollister, California: county seat of San Benito County, founded 1872 and named for Colonel W.W. Hollister. Population 41,678 (2020), 45,695 (2025 estimate); agricultural center near the creeping section of the San Andreas Fault.

Holloman Air Force Base

Holloman Air Force Base, established in New Mexico in 1942 as Alamogordo Air Field, is a US Air Force base that trains F-16 and MQ-9 pilots.

Hollow (Stray Kids EP)

Hollow is Stray Kids' third Japanese mini album (June 18, 2025, Sony Music Labels/JYP), five original-Japanese tracks, 3RACHA on all songs, 'Parade' tied to the film Re/member: The Last Night.

Hollow cathode lamp

A hollow cathode lamp (HCL) is a metal-vapor glow discharge lamp emitting sharp, element-specific spectral lines, the most common light source in atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS).

Hollow City (novel)

Hollow City is a 2014 young-adult fantasy novel by Ransom Riggs. It is the second novel in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series, published by Quirk Books.

Hollow Earth

The Hollow Earth theory, or Hohlweltlehre, holds that Earth is hollow with habitable inner worlds; proposed by Edmond Halley, it was refuted by geophysics and survives in fiction.

Hollow fiber bioreactor

Hollow fiber bioreactor (HFBR): a membrane cell-culture system with semipermeable fibers in a cartridge; cells grow in the extracapillary space at ~10^9 cells/mL with low shear, used for antibodies, bioartificial livers, and tissue engineering.

Hollow fiber liquid-phase microextraction

Hollow fiber liquid-phase microextraction (HF-LPME) is a sample preparation technique that extracts and concentrates analytes from a liquid sample into microliters of solvent inside a porous hollow fiber membrane.

Hollow Knight

Hollow Knight (Team Cherry, 2017) is a 2D Metroidvania action-adventure set in the ruined insect kingdom of Hallownest. Kickstarter-funded, Metacritic 87-90, over 1 million sales; sequel Silksong stars Hornet.

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Hollow Knight: Silksong is Team Cherry's 2025 Metroidvania sequel starring Hornet in the kingdom of Pharloom, released September 4, 2025; Metascore 90, critics 91 versus players 84, with crests and tools replacing charms.

Hollow Man

Hollow Man (2000) is a Paul Verhoeven sci-fi horror film for Columbia Pictures starring Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Caine, a scientist whose irreversible invisibility serum turns him murderous; notable for Sony Pictures Imageworks' digital human effects and a 2006 direct-to-video sequel.

Hollow Man 2

Hollow Man 2 (Hollow Man II) is a 2006 direct-to-video sci-fi horror sequel directed by Claudio Fäh, starring Christian Slater as an invisible rogue assassin hunted by Peter Facinelli's Seattle detective; released on DVD May 23, 2006 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Hollow Moon

The Hollow Moon, or Spaceship Moon, is a fringe belief that the Moon is hollow or artificial, stemming from a 1970 Soviet article and the Moon's bell-like ringing.

Hollow-core fiber

Hollow-core fiber (HCF) is an optical fiber that guides light through a hollow, air- or gas-filled core instead of solid glass, offering lower latency, lower nonlinearity, and record-low signal loss.

Hollow-core fiber compression

Hollow-core fiber compression is a technique for shortening intense ultrashort laser pulses by spectrally broadening them in a gas-filled hollow-core fiber, first demonstrated in 1996 and now standard for attosecond science.

Hollow-core slab

A hollow-core slab is a precast concrete floor element with continuous longitudinal voids that reduce self-weight while preserving bending capacity, typically prestressed and used in multi-story buildings.

Hollow-fiber membrane

A hollow-fiber membrane is a fine self-supporting tube with a hollow lumen that acts as a selective filter; thousands bundled in a module serve desalination, water treatment, gas separation, and dialysis.

Hollow-hand spade money (kongshou bu)

Hollow-hand spade money (空首布), also called spade money, is an early Chinese bronze coin shaped like a spade, cast by the Zhou royal house and the states of Jin, Zheng, and Wei.

Hollow-point bullet

A hollow-point bullet, or hollowpoint, is a bullet with a nose cavity that expands on impact, increasing energy transfer while limiting penetration; historically called the dum-dum bullet.

Hollowed-out villages in China

Hollowed-out villages in China, known as kongxin cun (空心村), are villages whose registered residents have left for urban work but keep their rural houses and land rights.