animation

See also Animation

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin animatio, from animare.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /æn.əˈme.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.

   Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation. --Landor.

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."

Synonyms

• (giving life or spirit) breath life into, vitalize
• (the state of being lively) airiness, ardor, buoyancy, earnestness, energy, enthusiasm, liveliness, promptitude, spirit, sprightliness, vivacity
• (the condition of being alive) life

Derived terms

Animation

deanimation disanimation

reanimation suspended animation

Translations

The act of animating

• Bulgarian: съживяване (bg) (sǎživjavane)
• Romanian: animare (ro) f, însuflețire (ro) f

• Scottish Gaelic: beothachadh (gd) m

causing images to appear to move

• Arabic: إحياء (ar) ('iHyaa')
• Bulgarian: анимация (bg) (animacija)
• Catalan: animació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: trad. 動畫, simpl. 动画 (pinyin: dònghuà), 動漫 (cmn), 动漫 (cmn) (dòngmàn)

• French: animation (fr)
• Galician: animación (gl) f
• German: Animation (de) f
• Japanese: アニメーション (ja) (animēshon), アニメ (ja) (anime)
• Korean: 애니메이션 (aenimeisyeon)

• Malay: animasi (ms)
• Polish: animacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: animação (pt) f
• Russian: анимация (ru) (animácija) f, мультипликация (ru) (mul'tiplikácija) f
• Scottish Gaelic: beothachadh (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: animacija (sh) f
• Spanish: animación (es) f
• Swedish: animation (sv) c
• Turkish: animasyon (tr)

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• Esperanto: animigo

Descendants

• Japanese: アニメーション (animēshon) (borrowed)

Anagrams

• amination

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French

Etymology

From Latin animatio.

Pronunciation

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Noun

animation f (plural animations)

1. animation

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Swedish

Noun

animation c

1. animation

Declension

Declension of animation

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	animation	animationen	animationer	animationerna
genitive	animations	animationens	animationers	animationernas