Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or fact of going on or persisting.
  • noun The state of continuing in the same condition, capacity, or place.
  • noun An extension by which something is carried to a further point.
  • noun The act or fact of beginning again after stopping; resumption.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or fact of continuing or prolonging; extension of existence in a lino or series.
  • noun Extension or carrying on to a further point; the thing continued: as, the continuation of a story.
  • noun Extension in space; a carrying on in length; prolongation: as, the continuation of a line in surveying.
  • noun In mathematics, a process in fluxions equivalent to integration by parts.
  • noun plural Trousers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it
  • noun the act of continuing an activity without interruption
  • noun a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction
  • noun the consequence of being lengthened in duration

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Examples

  • Offering the Republican response, California Rep. Kevin McCarthy criticized what he called the continuation of a "stimulation strategy that's led to more debt and fewer jobs."

    Obama to Step Up Pressure on Jobs Plan Josh Mitchell 2011

  • He says extending the American training effort into the next presidency would require the deployment of tens of thousands of our troops, which he calls a continuation of the occupation of Iraq.

    CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2008 2008

  • President Obama accused Iran's leaders of hypocrisy for first encouraging the protests in Egypt, which they described as a continuation of Iran's own revolution, and then cracking down on Iranians who used the pretext to come out on the streets.

    NYT > Home Page By MARK LANDLER 2011

  • "Israel has three options," Erekat said, a two-state solution, a single state including Jews and Palestinians, or what he called a continuation of Israel's "racism" and "apartheid system" in the West Bank where Arabs and Christians can't use roads reserved only for Israelis.

    JPost.com - Front Page 2010

  • Jews and Palestinians, or what he called a continuation of Israel's racism and apartheid system in the West Bank where Arabs and Christians can't use roads reserved only for

    Haaretz.com headlines RSS 2010

  • Jews and Palestinians, or what he called a continuation of Israel's racism and apartheid system in the West Bank where Arabs and Christians can't use roads reserved only for

    Haaretz.com headlines RSS 2010

  • Walton, in continuation table of contents/novel texts/

    Contents 2010

  • Writing a summary of facts (see the story of the Harry Potter Lexicon debacle) or writing a continuation is derivative and therefore illegal without permission.

    Twilight Lexicon » Whose Characters Are They Anyway? 2009

  • Walton, in continuation table of contents/novel texts/

    Contents 2010

  • •Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade, the NBA's second-leading scorer, has been an energetic, defensive terror, averaging 2.1 steals and 1.4 blocked shots in continuation of the emphasis on defense he practiced in Beijing.

    Olympians ringing true to star form 2009

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