continuation

Etymology

From Middle English continuacion, from Old French continuation, from Latin continuātiō. Morphologically continue +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /kənˌtɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/, /kənˌtɪnjuˈeɪʃ(ə)n/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kənˌtɪn.jʉˈæɪ.ʃən/, [kənˌtɪn.jʉˈæɪ.ʃn̩]
• Hyphenation: con‧tin‧u‧a‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

continuation (countable and uncountable, plural continuations)

1. The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession

   Synonyms: prolongation, propagation

   Antonyms: discontinuation, termination

2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.

   the continuation of a story

   The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.

3. (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.

4. (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.

References

• continuation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French continuation, from Old French continuation, borrowed from Latin continuātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

continuation f (plural continuations)

1. continuation (act of continuing)

Further reading

• “continuation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Etymology

From Old French continuation.

Noun

continuation f (plural continuations)

1. continuation (act of continuing)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)

Etymology

Late Old French, borrowed from Latin continuātiō, continuātiōnem.

Noun

continuation oblique singular, f (oblique plural continuations, nominative singular continuation, nominative plural continuations)

1. continuation (act of continuing)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)