n. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
n. The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics.
n. The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness
n. The condition of being animate or alive.
n. conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.
n. The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The act of animating or the state of being animated.
n. Liveliness; briskness; the state of being full of spirit and vigor: as, he recited the story with great animation.
n. The appearance of activity or life: as, the animation of a picture or statue. Attribution of life to.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
n. the making of animated cartoons
n. the condition of living or the state of being alive
n. quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
n. the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something
n. general activity and motion
n. the property of being able to survive and grow
Word Usage
"After that, I went to the “Get a Job” panel, where I discovered that finding work in animation is a lot like finding work in any other interesting field."