[syn: lengthiness, prolongation, continuation, protraction]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Continuation \Con*tin`u*a"tion\, n. [L. continuatio: cf. F.
connuation.]
1. That act or state of continuing; the state of being
continued; uninterrupted extension or succession;
prolongation; propagation.
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Preventing the continuation of the royal line.
--Macaulay.
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2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on;
as, the continuation of a story.
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My continuation of the version of Statius. --Pope.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
continuation
n 1: the act of continuing an activity without interruption
[syn: continuance, continuation] [ant:
discontinuance, discontinuation]
2: a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it
[syn: sequel, continuation]
3: a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an
innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its
established direction [syn: good continuation,
continuation, law of continuation]
4: the consequence of being lengthened in duration [syn:
lengthiness, prolongation, continuation, protraction]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
continuation passing style
continuation
continuations
(CPS) A style of programming in which every user
function f takes an extra argument c known as a "continuation".
Whenever f would normally return a result r to its caller, it
instead returns the result of applying the continuation to r. The
continuation thus represents the whole of the rest of the
computation. Some examples:
normal (direct style) continuation passing style
square x = x * x square x k = k (x * x)
g (square 23) square 23 g
(square 3) + 1 square 3 ( \ s . s + 1 )
(1995-04-04)