continuation
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (4)
- the act of continuing an activity without interruptionSynonyms: continuanceOpposite discontinuationType of activityKinds prolongation, repetition, pursuance, survival, perseverance, abidance
- a part added to a book or play that continues and extends itSynonyms: sequelType of addendum, supplement
- a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established directionSynonyms: good continuationlaw of continuationType of Gestalt law of organization, Gestalt principle of organization
- the consequence of being lengthened in durationSynonyms: lengthinessprolongationprotractionType of duration, lengthKinds fermata
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. continuatio: cf. F. connuation.
1. That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
Preventing the continuation of the royal line.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story.
My continuation of the version of Statius.— Alexander Pope
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<programming> (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 )
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