What is an Animation?

The Web Definitons of an Animation are as Follows:

• The condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
• The property of being able to survive and grow; "the vitality of a seed"
• Quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
• Vivification: the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something
• The making of animated cartoons
• Liveliness: general activity and motion

My Favourite Definition: The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics; The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness; The condition of being animate or alive...the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement

Web Defintions From: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7DAAU&defl=en&q=define:animation&ei=6wsiSuf0I5_qsgOT3IH1Aw&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

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