Noun

(en noun)

The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.

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A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.

A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)"an illustration [...] is a computer projection of future premiums, cash values and death benefits based on the current dividend scale (whole life) or current interest rates and current costs of insurance (universal life)." taken from http://www.evaluatelifeinsurance.org

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."