continuation

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /kəntɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/

Noun

continuation

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. (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.
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.

Translations

• French: continuation
• German: Fortsetzung
• Italian: continuazione
• Portuguese: continuação, prosseguimento
• Russian: продолже́ние
• Spanish: continuación

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