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freeze frame

–noun Television, Movies.
1. Also called stop motion. an optical effect or technique in which a single frame of film is reprinted in a continuous series, which when shown gives the effect of a still photograph.
2. a button or other mechanism on a projector, videocassette system, etc., allowing one to stop the projected picture at any point.
Also, freeze-frame.


Origin:
1955–60


freeze-frame, adjective
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freeze-frame or freeze frame   (frēz'frām')
n.  
  1. A still picture in the course of a movie or television film, made by running a series of identical frames or by stopping a reel or videotape at one desired frame.

  2. A vivid, motionless scene or image.

freeze'-frame' v.
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