Don't worry — if you don't know what the word "GIF" means, now you can look it up in the Oxford American Dictionary, which just named the 25-year-old acronym, which stands for "graphic interchange ...

If you needed another clue that the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, the short, looping digital animation file, has become totally ubiquitous, the Oxford Dictionary has selected the term as its ...

A moving picture in GIF format, which comprises a series of frames. When displayed, they provide an animated sequence that cycles over and over without stopping. Although popular on the Web, animated ...

A GIF image that gradually comes into focus. Instead of displaying a line at a time from top to bottom, lines at various intervals throughout the frame are displayed until all the lines are filled in.

"The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year, but like so many other relics of the 80s, it has never been trendier," ...

It's been delighting people around the world for 25 years but now formally holds a honored place in the cultural lexicon: "GIF" has been chosen as word of the year by the Oxford American Dictionary.

It’s official: GIF has been named the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year. The word–and the computer science behind it–has been around since the 1980s, but the GIF has gained popularity in ...

Internet culture gets its proper due in journalism today, as “GIF” has beat out “YOLO” as the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year. “GIF celebrated a lexical milestone in 2012, gaining ...