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Retro-mation 

An animation style were the animator make his/her animated cartoon emulate silent films of the 1890s-1930s.Or the animated cartoon emulates old film stock from 1940s-1970s.Other forms of Retro-mation may also be made to have a grainy appearance to emulate the classic era of film in Hollywood from the 1930s-1960s. Not all Retro-mation needs to be in black and white but it adds a Nostalgic effect to the cartoon.
This style is very common in Flash Animation.
The Vaudeville cartoons are examples of Retro-mation
Retro-mation by ian May 13, 2005
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Retrovation 

Retro-innovation. Innovation that happens when people resist change or when they go back to a state before the change was brought in. Remember, standard definitions of innovation is built around change and consider resistance to change anti-innovative.
People are increasingly going back to the good old days. Retrovation is evident in many new products that we use. Organic, fertilizer free farming is popular again. At the very least, we apply retro-filters on our digital images when we cannot get back to the real bygones. Retrovert has actually become a personality type, just like introvert and extrovert.
Retrovation by BabuGeorge April 30, 2015

Retrovation 

A renovation to make a space look like an older period.
Picking up some rotary phones for my retrovation
Retrovation by MindGrapes October 28, 2014

Retrobation 

When you masturbate at your childhood home after having moved out and are back for a visit.
"I retrobated with headphones so my parents couldn't hear my milf porn."

"Retrobation was the only thing that got me through my family's Christmas party"
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