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Frame Rate

By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com

Definition: The measure of the number of frames displayed sequentially per second of animation in order to create the illusion of motion. The higher the frame rate, the smoother the motion, because there are more frames per second to display the transition from point A to point B.
Also Known As: frame frequency
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