Meaning of ANIMATION
Pronunciation: | | `anu'meyshun
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- [n] general activity and motion
- [n] the making of animated cartoons
- [n] the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something
- [n] quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
- [n] the property of being able to survive and grow; "the vitality of a seed"
- [n] the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
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| Synonyms: | | aliveness, brio, invigoration, invigoration, life, liveliness, living, spiritedness, vitality, vivification, vivification |
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| See Also: | | activating, activation, activeness, activity, activity, aliveness, animateness, being, beingness, chirpiness, cinematography, endurance, energizing, eternal life, existence, filming, life, life eternal, liveliness, liveness, motion-picture photography, skin, spirit, sprightliness, survival | |
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| Definition: | | Animation Description not available. more details ... |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \An`i*ma"tion\, n. [L. animatio, fr. animare.]
1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state
of being animate or alive.
The animation of the same soul quickening the whole
frame. --Bp. Hall.
Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am
speaking, with whatever I possess of animation.
--Landor.
2. The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and
vigor; vivacity; spiritedness; as, he recited the story
with great animation.
{Suspended animation}, temporary suspension of the vital
functions, as in persons nearly drowned.
Syn: Liveliness; vivacity; spirit; buoyancy; airiness;
sprightliness; promptitude; enthusiasm; ardor;
earnestness; energy. See {Liveliness}.
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Computing Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | The creation of artificial moving images. Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.graphics.animation. FAQ. |
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| Related Terms: | | activity, actuation, afflatus, aggravation, agitation, alacrity, animal spirits, animate existence, animating spirit, animus, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, ardency, ardor, arousal, arousing, avidity, avidness, being alive, birth, breathless impatience, breeziness, brio, briskness, bubbliness, capersomeness, cheerful readiness, coltishness, dash, direction, divine afflatus, dynamism, eagerness, ebullience, effervescence, elan, electrification, energizing, energy, enlivening, enlivenment, enthusiasm, esprit, exacerbation, exasperation, excitation, excitement, exhilaration, existence, exuberance, fervor, fire, firing, fomentation, forwardness, friskiness, frolicsomeness, gaiety, galvanization, gamesomeness, gayness, genius, glow, gust, gusto, having life, heartiness, immortality, impatience, impetuosity, impetus, incitement, infection, inflammation, influence, infuriation, infusion, inner-direction, inspiration, intensity, invigoration, irritation, joie de vivre, keen desire, keenness, lathering up, life, lifetime, liveliness, living, long life, longevity, lustiness, mettle, motivation, moving, moving spirit, moxie, oomph, other-direction, pep, peppiness, perkiness, pertness, perturbation, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, playfulness, prompting, promptness, provocation, quickening, quickness, readiness, revitalization, revival, robustness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, skittishness, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, spriteliness, steaming up, stimulation, stimulus, stirring, stirring up, verve, viability, vigor, vim, vitality, vitalization, vivaciousness, vivacity, vivification, warmth, whipping up, working up, zest, zestfulness, zing, zip |
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