continuation
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French continuation, from Latin continuātiō.
Pronunciation
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.
- (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) representation of an execution state of a program
Derived terms
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
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 oblique singular, f (oblique plural continuations, nominative singular continuation, nominative plural continuations)
- continuation (act of continuing)
Descendants
- English: continuation
- Middle French: continuation
- French: continuation
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)
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