stop-motion
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English
Alternative forms
- (animation technique): stop motion
Noun
stop-motion (countable and uncountable, plural stop-motions)
- (uncountable, photography) An animation technique wherein physical objects are slightly altered and photographed one picture at a time to give an illusion of movement when displayed in sequence.
- (countable) A device used for automatically stopping a machine or engine when a fault or error is detected.
Translations
animation technique
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References
- ^ stop, combinations section (Comb.), stop-motion a device for automatically stopping a machine or engine when something has gone wrong (The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Clarendon Press, Oxford, Vol. 2 N-Z, 1993 edition, see page 3,074)