keyframe

  1. Noun.  A single frame in an animation sequence drawn by an artist, between which others are tweened.
  2. Noun.  A complete video frame, used as a reference for subsequent interframes in video compression.
  3. Verb.  To animate by interpolation between successive keyframes.

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