Usually means: Artistic creation of moving images.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word animation:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. animation: Merriam-Webster
  2. animation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. animation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. animation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. animation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Animation, animation: Wordnik
  7. animation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. animation: Wiktionary
  9. animation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. animation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. animation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. animation: Dictionary.com
  13. animation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Animation (Cedar Walton album), Animation (Jon Anderson album), Animation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Animation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. animation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. animation: Rhymezone
  18. animation, animation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. animation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. animation: FreeDictionary.org
  21. animation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. animation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. animation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. animation: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. animation: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  3. animation: ANIME AND MANGA GLOSSARY

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. animation: Legal dictionary

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. animation: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. animation: Netlingo
  3. Animation: Game Dictionary
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  6. animation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. animation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. animation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. animation: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. animation: Lighting Design Glossary
  2. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

(Note: See animations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
noun:  (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
noun:  The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness
noun:  The condition of being animate or alive.
noun:  (linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
noun:  Activities offered by a holiday resort encompassing activities that include movement, joy, leisure and spectacle, such as games, sports, shows, events, etc.

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