continuation

Meaning

Noun

• The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession
• That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
• 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.
• 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.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• first-class continuation
• second-class continuation

Origin

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