continuation
/kənˌtɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/ noun C1- The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession
- That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on. · the continuation of a story· The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.
- 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.
- 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.
Plural continuations
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The road selected was a continuation of the Via Sistina; then by cutting off the right angle of the street in which stands Santa Maria Maggiore and proceeding by the Via Urbana and San Pietro in Vincoli, the travellers would find themselves directly opposite the Colosseum.
To a Parisian accustomed to silken curtains, walls hung with velvet drapery, and the soft perfume of burning wood, the white smoke of which diffuses itself in graceful curves around the room, the appearance of the whitewashed cell which greeted his eyes on awakening seemed like the continuation of some disagreeable dream.
Without this pivotal negotiation, the continuation of the journey toward the Pacific coast would have been virtually impossible for the weary travelers.
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