# continuation
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English continuacion, from Old French continuation, from Latin continuātiō. Morphologically continue +‎ -ation

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /kənˌtɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/, /kənˌtɪnjuˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /kənˌtɪn.jʉˈæɪ.ʃən/, [kənˌtɪn.jʉˈæɪ.ʃn̩]
* Hyphenation: con‧tin‧u‧a‧tion
* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

### Noun

continuation (countable and uncountable, plural continuations)
* The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession
    Synonyms: prolongation, propagation
    Antonyms: discontinuation, termination
* That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
    the continuation of a story
    The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.
* (programming, countable) 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.
** 1986, “MIT/GNU Scheme 10.1.11”, in The GNU Operating System‎:Whenever a Scheme expression is evaluated a continuation exists that wants the result of the expression.
* (basketball, countable) 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.

#### Hyponyms

* delimited continuation
* first-class continuation
* second-class continuation

#### Derived terms

* analytic continuation
* call-with-current-continuation
* continuable
* continuational
* continuation bet
* continuation day
* continuationism
* continuation line
* continuation-passing style
* continuation school
* continuative
* noncontinuation
* recontinuation

#### Translations
### References

* continuation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French continuation, from Old French continuation, borrowed from Latin continuātiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

continuation f (plural continuations)
* continuation (act of continuing)

#### Derived terms

* bonne continuation

### Further reading

* “continuation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French continuation.

### Noun

continuation f (plural continuations)
* continuation (act of continuing)

#### Descendants

* French: continuation

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)

## Old French
### Etymology

Late Old French, borrowed from Latin continuātiō, continuātiōnem.

### Noun

continuation oblique singular, f (oblique plural continuations, nominative singular continuation, nominative plural continuations)
* continuation (act of continuing)

#### Descendants

* Middle French: continuation
** French: continuation
* → Middle English: continuacion
** English: continuation

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)