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Webster 1913 Edition
Continuation
Con-tinˊu-a′tion
,Noun.
[L.
continuatio
: cf. F. connuation
.] 1.
That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
Preventing the
continuation
of the royal line. Macaulay.
2.
That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on;
as, the
. continuation
of a storyMy
continuation
of the version of Statius. Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Continuation
CONTINUATION
,Noun.
1.
Extension of existence in a series or line; succession uninterrupted.These things must be the works of providence, for the continuation of the species.
2.
Extension or carrying on to a further point; as the continuation of a story.3.
Extension in space; production; a carrying on in length; as the continuation of a line in surveying.Definition 2024
continuation
continuation
English
Noun
continuation (countable and uncountable, plural continuations)
- The act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
- That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
- the continuation of a story
- The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.
- (computing) A representation of an execution state of a program at a certain point in time, which may be used at a later time to resume the execution of the program from that point.
- (basketball) A successful shot that, despite a foul, is made with a single continuous motion beginning before the foul, and that is therefore valid in certain forms of basketball.
Hyponyms
- (computing): first-class continuation
- (computing): second-class continuation
Derived terms
- continue
- continuable
- continuation school
- continuative
Antonyms
- (act or state of continuing or being continued): termination, discontinuation
Translations
act or state of continuing
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French
Etymology
From Middle French continuation, from Old French continuation, from Latin continuātiō.
Noun
continuation f (plural continuations)
- continuation (act of continuing)
Derived terms
Middle French
Noun
continuation f (plural continuations)
- continuation (act of continuing)
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)
Old French
Etymology
Late Old French, borrowing from Latin continuātiō.
Noun
continuation f (oblique plural continuations, nominative singular continuation, nominative plural continuations)
- continuation (act of continuing)
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)