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continuation

[ kuhn-tin-yoo-ey-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the act or state of continuing; the state of being continued.
extension or carrying on to a further point:
to request the continuation of a loan.
something that continues some preceding thing by being of the same kind or having a similar content:
Today's weather will be a continuation of yesterday's.
Library Science.
1. a supplement to a publication previously issued.
2. a work published in continuance of a monograph, serial, or series.
British Stock Exchange. contango.

continuation

/ kənˌtɪnjʊˈeɪʃən /

a part or thing added, esp to a book or play, that serves to continue or extend; sequel
a renewal of an interrupted action, process, etc; resumption
the act or fact of continuing without interruption; prolongation
See contango
another word for contango contango

1350–1400; Middle English continuacio ( u ) n (< Anglo-French ) < Latin continuātiōn- (stem of continuātiō ). See continuate, -ion

Were there ever plans for a sequel to Scissorhands, or a continuation of that story?

This obsession with food choice often leads people to cut out the wrong ones, proliferating the continuation of new diets.

The eight compositions on display at the Sears-Peyton Gallery are a continuation of a body of work.

But will future systems see the continuation of the online pass?

Videos uploaded by some mothers and fathers are less of a reach out than a simple continuation of their quotidian Internet habits.

Newhall Street, and a new thoroughfare made in continuation of Bread Street.

It is sincerely to be hoped that a little later we shall have a continuation of the work from Mr. Withers' pen.

In continuation of this topic, may I inquire when and where the two following bishops, deprived in 1690, died?

The inner tube is of the same diameter as the flue, and forms a continuation of it.

The continuation of the shoal between the islands and Point Lookout was not clearly ascertained.

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