Entertainment

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See also: The Entertainer (disambiguation)

Entertainment is an amusement or diversion intended to hold the attention of an audience or its participants, and which in general interact with or depend upon the entertained in some way— normally by audience participation or support. This participation can be subtle, as in Theatres: Film, Opera or stageshows, or Orchestral symphony concerts wherein the applause due the performance or performing artists would be bad manners. In contrast, the sports entertainment industry feeds off audience participation— who can imagine the strange event attending a pro-wrestling bout, basketball or baseball game without cheering or booing the participants would experentially be.

The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry, and one distinction between what is meant by the term is the voluntary participation of the party being entertained, which may be passive (Opera) or active (Frantic shoot-em-up computer games) and the whole gamut of industry supported diversions in between (Baseball, Concerts, Football, Books, Television, film , striptease, and events like Karioke. Recreation, play, and having fun may in some instances be confused with entertainment, but the difference is elementary—entertainments take two or more— even if one of the participants in a programmer for the obsolescent Amiga computer system who now happens to be deceased. Without his 'performance', or the other participant in the card game, both backed by an industry, the event would and could not occur.

The term 'entertainment' has also been used in physics as a part of the concept of resonance.

A stilt-walker entertaining shoppers at a shopping centre in Swindon, England

Contents [hide] 1 Entertainment In Physics 2 Examples of Entertainment 3 See also 4 External links

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Entertainment In Physics

Entertainment is much like Resonance. Entertainment is a process in where the frequency of one system is combined with the frequency of another system, to generate a single wave. This can been seen in electroencephalogram (EEG) waves, where a combinations of separate frequencies put together form a single sinusoidal wave. This can be an instance of two objects with multiple frequencies, achieving the same frequency.

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Examples of Entertainment

More specifically, the participatory activities listed below are a form of recreation.

• Animation
• Betting
• Chat
• Circus
• Dance
• Film
• Drinking
• Game
• Humor
• Magic
• Mass media
  • movies/film/cinema
  • television
  • radio
  • new media
• Museums
• Music
• Revue
• Show business
• Sex business
• Shooting
• Sports
• Theatre
• Fighting

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See also

• Entertainment basic topics

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External links

• Entertainment at the Open Directory Project

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