Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small book consisting of a series of images that give the illusion of continuous movement when the edges of the pages are flipped quickly.

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  • noun A booklet containing a sequence of near-identical images so that flipping rapidly through the pages produces an illusion of animation.

Etymologies

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flip +‎ book

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Examples

  • “The Book of Heroes” margin flipbook animation from Roderick Constance on Vimeo.

    The Book of Heroes: How To Make a Flipbook « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2010

  • Archaia’s Mouse Guard/Fraggle Rock flipbook is a nice package, and the distinctive square size makes it stand out.

    Free Comic Book Day 2010 in Review (Part 2) » Comics Worth Reading 2010

  • The creative brains behind the flipbook is the agency offering the scholarship, Rethink.

    GottaQuirk Mari Basson 2010

  • Arranged in a recent artist book devoted to the series with one photograph following the other, one image to each page, the typology is transformed into a kind of flipbook, a proto-cinematic device carrying the photograph and the image into other domains.

    Irish Blogs Singularity 2010

  • This was a short "flipbook" animation I did recently.

    Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2010

  • This was a short "flipbook" animation I did recently.

    Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2010

  • The online "flipbook," as it calls itself, was founded in 2008 to provide men with a wide choice of mature websites and photos with clickable hyperlinks.

    AVN News 2009

  • Your timelines can be viewed as a zoomable timeline, as a "flipbook" (a poor man's

    Netflash Mark Gibbs 2009

  • Your timelines can be viewed as a zoomable timeline, as a "flipbook" (a poor man's

    Netflash Mark Gibbs 2009

  • Your timelines can be viewed as a zoomable timeline, as a "flipbook" (a poor man's

    Netflash Mark Gibbs 2009

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