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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
animation/anɪˈmeɪʃn/

▶noun

1 the state of being full of life or vigour.
■ chiefly archaic the state of being alive.

2 the technique of photographing successive drawings, or positions of model figures, to create a film giving an illusion of movement.
■ (also computer animation) the generation and manipulation of images by means of a computer to create moving images.

'animation' also found in these Oxford entries:

anabiosis - animate - animated - anime - cartoon - diorama - entrain - flash - glassy - glaze - live action - morph - mosso - psychosis - stolid - stop-motion - suspended animation

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