continuation

English

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):

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• (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, countable) 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, countable) 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

• delimited continuation
• first-class continuation
• second-class continuation

Derived terms

• analytic continuation
• call-with-current-continuation
• continuable
• continuational
• continuation bet
• continuation day
• continuationism
• continuation line
• continuation-passing style
• continuation school
• continuative
• noncontinuation
• recontinuation

Translations

act or state of continuing

Albanian: vazhdim (sq) Armenian: շարունակություն (hy) (šarunakutʻyun) Azerbaijani: davam, ard (az) Bashkir: дауам (dawam) Belarusian: праця́г m (pracjáh), прадаўжэ́нне n (pradawžénnje) Bulgarian: продължение (bg) n (prodǎlženie), удължение (bg) n (udǎlženie) Catalan: continuació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 續編 / 续编 (zh) (xùbiān) Czech: pokračování (cs) n Danish: fortsættelse c Dutch: voortzetting (nl) f, hervatting (nl) f Esperanto: daŭrigo Finnish: jatkuminen (fi) French: continuation (fr) f Galician: continuación (gl) f German: Fortsetzung (de) f Greek: συνέχιση (el) f (synéchisi), εξακολούθηση (el) f (exakoloúthisi) Hebrew: המשך (hemshekh) Hungarian: folytatás (hu) Italian: continuazione (it) Japanese: 継続 (ja) (keizoku), 続き (ja) (tsuzuki) Korean: 계속 (ko) (gyesok) Latin: continuitas f Latvian: turpinājums m, turpināšana f (act of continuing) Malay: kesinambungan (ms) Maori: roanga Norwegian: Bokmål: videreføring m or f, fortsettelse m Polish: kontynuacja (pl) f, dalszy ciąg m Portuguese: continuação (pt) f, prosseguimento (pt) m Romanian: continuare (ro) f, urmare (ro) f Russian: продолже́ние (ru) n (prodolžénije), континуа́ция (ru) f (kontinuácija) Slovak: pokračovanie n Spanish: continuación (es) f, continuamiento m Swedish: fortsättning (sv) c Telugu: తరవాయి (te) (taravāyi), కొనసాగింపు (konasāgimpu) Tocharian B: stamalñe Turkish: devam (tr) Ukrainian: продо́вження n (prodóvžennja)

that which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on

Greek: συνέχεια (el) f (synécheia)

References

• continuation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

continuation f (plural continuations)

1. 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)

1. continuation (act of continuing)

Descendants

• French: continuation

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e 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)

1. 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 IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)