An animation of a collapsing building.
From Latin animatio, from animare, equivalent to animate + -ion.
animation (countable and uncountable, plural animations)
- 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.
- (animation, in the sense of a cartoon) A sequence of still drawings or inanimate objects displayed in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement in motion pictures or computer graphics; the object (film, computer game, etc.) produced
- The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness
- He recited the story with great animation.
- The condition of being animate or alive.
- (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."
- Activities offered by a holiday resort encompassing activities that include movement, joy, leisure and spectacle, such as games, sports, shows, events, etc.
- (the act of breathing life into something): vitalization, vivification, enlivenment
- (the state of being lively): airiness, ardor, buoyancy, earnestness, energy, enthusiasm, liveliness, promptitude, spirit, sprightliness, vivacity
- (the condition of being alive): life
causing images to appear to move
- Albanian: animacion m
- Arabic: إِحْيَاء (ʔiḥyāʔ), تَحْرِيك m (taḥrīk)
- Armenian: անիմացիա (hy) (animacʻia), մուլտիպլիկացիա (hy) (multiplikacʻia)
- Azerbaijani: animasiya, multiplikasiya
- Belarusian: аніма́цыя f (animácyja), мультыпліка́цыя f (mulʹtyplikácyja)
- Bulgarian: анима́ция (bg) f (animácija)
- Catalan: animació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 動畫/动画 (zh) (dònghuà), 動漫/动漫 (zh) (dòngmàn)
- Czech: animace (cs) f
- Danish: animation c
- Dutch: animatie (nl) f
- Esperanto: animacio
- Estonian: animatsioon, multiplikatsioon
- Finnish: animaatio (fi) (technique; result), animointi (technique)
- French: animation (fr)
- Galician: animación (gl) f
- Georgian: ანიმაცია (animacia), მულტიპლიკაცია (mulṭiṗliḳacia)
- German: Animation (de) f
- Greek: απεικόνιση (el) f (apeikónisi)
- Hebrew: הַנְפָּשָׁה (he) f (hanpashá)
- Hindi: एनिमेशन (enimeśan)
- Hungarian: élénkség (hu), elevenség (hu)
- Icelandic: hreyfimynd f
- Indonesian: animasi (id)
- Italian: animazione (it)
- Japanese: アニメーション (ja) (animēshon), アニメ (ja) (anime)
- Kazakh: анимация (animasiä), мультипликация (multiplikasiä)
- Korean: 애니메이션 (ko) (aenimeisyeon)
- Kyrgyz: анимация (animatsiya), мультипликация (multiplikatsiya)
- Latvian: animācija f, multiplikācija f
- Lithuanian: animacija f, multiplikacija f
- Macedonian: анимација f (animacija)
- Malay: animasi (ms), dalangan
- Maori: hākoritanga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: animasjon m
- Nynorsk: animasjon m
- Persian: انیمیشن (fa) (animeyšen), پویانمایی (fa)
- Polish: animacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: animação (pt) f
- Romanian: animație (ro) f
- Russian: анима́ция (ru) f (animácija), мультиплика́ция (ru) f (mulʹtiplikácija)
- Scottish Gaelic: beothachadh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: анима́ција f
- Roman: animácija (sh) f
- Slovak: animácia f
- Slovene: animacija f
- Spanish: animación (es) f
- Swedish: animation (sv) c
- Tajik: аниматсия (tg) (animatsiya), мултипликатсия (tg) (multiplikatsiya)
- Thai: แอนิเมชัน (ɛɛ-ní-mee-chan)
- Turkish: animasyon (tr)
- Turkmen: animasiýa, multiplikasiýa
- Ukrainian: аніма́ція f (animácija), мультипліка́ція f (mulʹtyplikácija)
- Uzbek: animatsiya, multiplikatsiya (uz)
- Vietnamese: hoạt hình (vi), hoạt họa (vi)
- Welsh: animeiddio (cy) m (the process of amimation), animeddiad m (a single act of amimation or the result of animation)
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Borrowed from Latin animātiōnem.
animation f (plural animations)
- animation
animation c
- animation