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Webster 1913 Edition


Animation

Anˊi-ma′tion

,
Noun.
[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
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Animation

ANIMA'TION

,
Noun.
1.
The act of infusing life; the state of being animated.
2.
The state of being lively, brisk or full of spirit and vigor; as, he recited the story with great animation.

Definition 2024


Animation

Animation

See also: animation

German

Noun

Animation f (genitive Animation, plural Animationen)

  1. animation

Declension

animation

animation

See also: Animation

English

GIF animation video.

Noun

animation (plural animations)

  1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
    • 1647, Joseph Hall, Christ Mysticall; or the blessed union of Christ and his Members, as edited and reprinted in Josiah Pratt (editor), The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., Volume 8, C. Wittingham (1808), page 217:
    • [] by the animation of the same soul quickening that whole frame.
  2. (animation, in the sense of a cartoon) The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics.
  3. The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness
    He recited the story with great animation.
  4. The condition of being animate or alive.
    • Landor
      Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation.
  5. (linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
    • 1992, Samuel E. Martin, A Reference Grammar of Korean, page 291:
      "The constraints are not so hard and fast that exceptional sentences do not occur. In particular animation and disanimation can temporarily suspend the system."

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French

Etymology

From Latin animatio.

Pronunciation

Noun

animation f (plural animations)

  1. animation

Swedish

Noun

animation c

  1. animation

Declension

Inflection of animation 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative animation animationen animationer animationerna
Genitive animations animationens animationers animationernas