continuation
IPA: kʌntɪnjuˈeɪʃʌn
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.
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Examples of "continuation" in Sentences
- That is a continuation of contentiousness.
- It features the continuation of the story.
- Walton, in continuation table of contents/novel texts/
- 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.
- 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
- 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."
- 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.
- •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.
- 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.
- "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.
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