continuation
/kənˌtɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable
noun
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.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "There is no reason for the continuation of this discrepancy in maximum penalties since the relevant factor here is assault, not the sex of the person assaulted."
- "the continuation of a story"
- "The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful."
- "Whenever a Scheme expression is evaluated a continuation exists that wants the result of the expression."
Etymology
From Middle English continuacion, from Old French continuation, from Latin continuātiō. Morphologically continue + -ation.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kənˌtɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
- British English: /kənˌtɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/