Noun

(en noun)

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.

* 1647 , , 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) 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

He recited the story with great animation .

The condition of being animate or alive.

* Landor

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

(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."

Noun

(series)

A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}

(US, Canada) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals

Friends was one of the most successful television series in recent years.

(British) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.

(mathematics) The sum of the terms of a sequence.

(cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.

(zoology) An unranked taxon.

(senseid) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.