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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. the act of continuing an activity without interruption;
[syn: continuance, continuation]

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 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. [1913 Webster] Preventing the continuation of the royal line. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story. [1913 Webster] My continuation of the version of Statius. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
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)