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A part added to a book or play that continues and extends it
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continuation
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WordNet
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n. the act of continuing an activity without interruption [syn: continuance ] [ant: discontinuance , discontinuance ] a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it [syn: sequel ] a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES continuation school COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN school ▪ He got into trouble once too often and wound up in continuation school . ■ VERB see ▪ These works can be partly seen as a continuation of the nineteenth-century ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 The act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation. 2 That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on. 3 (context computing English) A representation of an execution ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Continuation \Con*tin`u*a"tion\, n. [L. continuatio: cf. F. connuation.] That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation. Preventing the continuation of the royal line. --Macaulay. ...
Usage examples of continuation.
When he returned home, he would join with Adana, the female who had been chosen for him, ensuring the continuation of his line, ensuring that all he was, all he knew, would be passed to the next generation.
Ladin understood better than most of the volunteers the extent to which the continuation and eventual success of the jihad in Afghanistan depended on an increasingly complex, almost worldwide organization.
However, to return in thought to the past, of which our present is the continuation: the old Biblical ideal of offering a holocaust to Yahweh by massacring every living thing in a captured town or city was but the Hebrew version of a custom general to the early Semites: the Moabites, the Amorites, the Assyrians, and all.
Some had preferred death on Helliconia to a continuation of Avernian order.
Then they drove a horizontal passage beneath the presumed bottom of the original Water Pit, where they found cribbing and the continuation of the original backfilled shaft.
James Meredith entered Ole Miss, his car sweeping up to the Continuation Center, a small auditorium where Barnett and school officials waited.
It was, in fact, a continuation of the inorganic chemical cabinets he had observed in the preceding rooms.
John, the doyerme of Khami Mission, had dutifully thanked the Almighty for His bounty but was going on, in conversational tones, to point out to Him that a little rain soon would help pollination of the immature cobs in the field and ensure a continuation of that bounty.
He slipped the other arm under her and raised her hips for better accuracy, finally found the star and compressed it for the requisite length of time despite the continuation of her pelvic rotation, presumably a remnant of the recent orgasm.
If your ball hits another ball, you get a croquet stroke and a continuation stroke, but if your ball goes through two hoops in one stroke, you only get one stroke.
Preservation of the belief system which supported the tranquil, unchanging culture of Haven was the particular duty of the scrutators, who reported to the Invigilator, an officer of the Tribunal, the body that assured the continuation of the traditions of Haven.
All this encouraged Petar to carry on with the plot, and he tried to develop the links with Louis XIV into a political alliance that would give the French king the throne of Hungary-Croatia and thus ensure continuation of the fight against the Ottomans.
Mark Antony, Shakespeare wrote what was virtually a continuation of the earlier play, and made it the most Plutarchian of the three plays he derived from that source.
The reason of this was lest, if the sacraments retained the same appearance, it might seem to be the continuation of one and the same sacrament, where there was no interruption of time.
Islam was both the Law and the Faith, and the Caliphs represented the continuation of what was termed the Sunna, the orthodox tradition of the doctrine and legal decisions which the Prophet had bequeathed to the Muslim community.