Full record for tri-D n.

Definition a device capable of transmitting or displaying a three dimensional image
OED requirements antedating 1951
Earliest cite D. Knight 'Don't Live in the Past'
Comment Looking for 'tri-D', 'tri-d', 'Tri-D', and 'TRI-D'.

The OED has cites for tri-D (Adams, 1979), and Tri-D (Julian May, 1981). Katrina Campbell submitted a 1982 cite for the form "tri-d" from Anne McCaffrey's "Crystal Singer". Mike Christie submitted a 1964 cite for the form "tri-D" from Frank Herbert's "Dune World". Mike Christie submitted a 1954 cite for the form "tri-D" from Frederik Pohl's "The Midas Plague". Katrina Campbell submitted a cite for the form "TRI-D" from a reprint of Anne McCaffrey's "To Ride Pegasus"; Mike Christie verified the cite in the 1973 first edition, and also located a cite for the form "Tri-D" from the 1973 first magazine appearance.

Cory Panshin submitted a cite for the form "tri-D" from a reprint of Damon Knight's "Don't Live in the Past"; Mike Christie verified the 1951 original appearance. Katrina Campbell submitted a cite for the form "Tri-D" from a 1992 reprint of Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye's 1990 "The Death of Sleep". Malcom Farmer submitted a cite for the form "Tri-D" from a reprint of Keith Laumer's "Prototaph"; Mike Christie verified the cite in the 1966 original magazine appearance.

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Citations for tri-D n.

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1953 P. Jones in Startling Stories June 9/2 Out of the Victorian era's popular toy, the stereopticon, the British outfit called Stereo-Techniques has developed its tri-di technique. Cinemascope, the Twentieth Century-Fox entry in the tri-di derby, is a simple color film device which simulates third dimension on a concave screen giving a panoramic effect. Who'll win the tri-di sweepstakes is anybody's guess.
1953 P. Jones in Startling Stories June 9/2 Next to jump on the tri-di bandwagon was Arch Obler with his Natural Vision feature picture ‘Bwana Devil’.
1953 P. Jones in Startling Stories June 9/1 Tri-di is nothing new to the pages of science fiction, and depending on how long it takes for tv engineers to catch up with Hollywood and Startling Stories , the movie-makers can count on a few green years while the public sifts out its preferences in triple takes.
1954 F. Pohl in Galaxy Sci. Fiction Apr. 49/1 It was an enormous glaringly new mansion, bigger even than Morey's former house, stuffed to bursting with bulging sofas and pianos and massive mahogany chairs and tri-D sets and bedrooms and drawing rooms and breakfast rooms and nurseries.
1962 P. Anderson in Fantastic Stories of Imagination June 63/2 On his back he carried a lumpy metal cylinder; the harness included a plastic panel across his chest, with switches, knobs, and three meters. Like some science fiction hero on the 3D.
1964 F. Herbert in Analog Sci. Fact–Sci. Fiction Jan. 58/2 A solido tri-D projection appeared on the table surface about a third of the way down from the Duke.
1966 R. Zelazny in Mag. Fantasy & Sci. Fiction June 22/2 After appearing on tri-dee a couple times [sic] , sounding off about interstellar culture, and flashing her white, white teeth, she picked up a flush contract.
1970 ‘A. Norton’ Dread Companion (1984) 183 Kosgro switched the three through the air and thrust in and out with them as I had seen swords used in tridee tapes made on primitive worlds.
1973 A. McCaffrey To Ride Pegasus 211 Hey, boss, Roznine has been watching a lot of TRI-D lately.
1973 R. Zelazny To Die in Italbar (1977) 94 He was more impressive in person than on record or in tridee.
1982 A. McCaffrey Crystal Singer 85 Her quarters were as good as the guest facility in the Shankill Base, nothing gaudy but certainly substantial: bed, table, chairs, writing surface, tri-d screen, the customary audio-visual terminals.
1990 A. McCaffrey & J. L. Nye Death of Sleep (1992) 217 Oh, after tonight, I believe you, even if this whole evening has been like something from Tri-D.
1991 A. McCaffrey Pegasus in Flight (1992) 158 His histrionics defuse a lot of pent-up garbage in a catharsis not generated by passive watching of the Tri-D fare.
2002 R. Garcia y Robertson in Asimov's Sci. Fiction Apr. 111 Millions of tons of misguided rock and ice hurtled right at Aetna II. An unnerving sight, even in 3V.