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continuation

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

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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[1]:
      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.

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(computing) representation of an execution state of a program

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Etymology

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

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continuation f (plural continuations)

  1. continuation (act of continuing)

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French continuation.

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continuation f (plural continuations)

  1. continuation (act of continuing)

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  • French: continuation

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Old French

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Late Old French, borrowed from Latin continuātiō, continuātiōnem.

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

  1. continuation (act of continuing)

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