continuation
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English continuacion, from Old French continuation, from Latin continuātiō. Morphologically continue + -ation
Pronunciation edit
- (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 edit
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.
- (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.
- (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 edit
(computing) representation of an execution state of a program
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
act or state of continuing
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References edit
- continuation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French continuation, from Old French continuation, borrowed from Latin continuātiōnem.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
continuation f (plural continuations)
- continuation (act of continuing)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “continuation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French continuation.
Noun edit
continuation f (plural continuations)
- continuation (act of continuing)
Descendants edit
- French: continuation
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Late Old French, borrowed from Latin continuātiō, continuātiōnem.
Noun edit
continuation oblique singular, f (oblique plural continuations, nominative singular continuation, nominative plural continuations)
- continuation (act of continuing)
Descendants edit
- Middle French: continuation
- French: continuation
- → Middle English: continuacion
- English: continuation
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)