noun

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