animated

adj
/ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ.tɪd/

Definitions

  1. Full of life or spirit

    Full of life or spirit; lively; vigorous; spritely.

    • an animated discussion
  2. Endowed with life.

    • Throughout animated Nature, of each characteristic Organ and Faculty there exists a preassurance, an instinctive and practical anticipation; and no preassurance common to a whole species does in any instance prove delusive.
  3. Composed of inanimate objects or drawings that have the illusion of motion through the…

    Composed of inanimate objects or drawings that have the illusion of motion through the use of computer graphics or stop-action filming.

    • an animated film
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. simple past and past participle of animate

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at animated. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at animated. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at animated

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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