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Entertainment

See also Entertainment (disambiguation) and The Entertainer (disambiguation)

Entertainment is an event, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the "audience" may be only one person). The audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera or actively as in computer games.

The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry.

Recreation, play, reading, and art appreciation are not generally regarded as entertainment but rather as recreation because entertainment generally requires the supplier of the performance to be visible to the viewer, with the exception of computer games.

The term 'entertainment' has also been used in physics as a part of the concept of resonance.
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A stilt-walker entertaining shoppers at a shopping centre in Swindon, England

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 combinations of separate frequencies combine to form a single sinusoidal wave. This can be an instance of two objects with multiple frequencies, achieving the same frequency.

Examples of Entertainment

*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

See also

* Entertainment basic topics

External links


*Gambling Entertainment



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