continuation
English
Etymology
From Middle English continuacion, from Old French continuation, from Latin continuātiō.Morphologically continue + -ation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəntɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Hyphenation: con‧tin‧u‧a‧tion
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
continuation (countable and uncountable, plural continuations)
- The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession
- Synonyms: prolongation, propagation
- Antonyms: discontinuation, termination
- That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
- the continuation of a story
- The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.
- (programming) 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.
- 1986, “MIT/GNU Scheme 10.1.11”, in The GNU Operating System:
- Whenever a Scheme expression is evaluated a continuation exists that wants the result of the expression.
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- (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) representation of an execution state of a program
- first-class continuation
- second-class continuation
Derived terms
- analytic continuation
- continuable
- continuation bet
- continuation day
- continuation line
- continuation-passing style
- continuation passing style
- continuation school
- continuative
- continue
Translations
act or state of continuing
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References
continuation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From Middle French continuation, from Old French continuation, borrowed from Latin continuātiō, continuātiōnem.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
continuation f (plural continuations)
- continuation (act of continuing)
Derived terms
- bonne continuation
Further reading
- “continuation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French continuation.
Noun
continuation f (plural continuations)
- continuation (act of continuing)
Descendants
- French: continuation
References
- 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, borrowed from Latin continuātiō, continuātiōnem.
Noun
continuation f (oblique plural continuations, nominative singular continuation, nominative plural continuations)
- continuation (act of continuing)
Descendants
- Middle French: continuation
- French: continuation
- → Middle English: continuacion
- English: continuation
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)