continuation
When you carry something over a longer period of time than originally planned, that's a continuation. The City Council voted on a continuation of their discussion on the school budget after failing to reach an agreement today.
You can also think of a continuation as the act of continuing to do something or to be in a particular situation. The continuation of your allergies makes you suspect they might have something to do with your new cat. Even after your cousin loses his job, he's grateful for the continuation of his health insurance. The Latin root, continuationem, means "a following of one thing after another."
Definitions of continuation
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the act of continuing an activity without interruption
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continuance
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discontinuance, discontinuation
the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent)
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lengthening, perpetuation, prolongation, protraction
the act of prolonging something
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repeating, repetition
the act of doing or performing again
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perseverance, perseveration, persistence
the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior
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abidance
the act of abiding (enduring without yielding)
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prosecution, pursuance
the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion
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survival
something that survives
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custom, usage, usance
accepted or habitual practice
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echolalia
(psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
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iteration
doing or saying again; a repeated performance
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redundancy
repetition of an act needlessly
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reduplication, reiteration
the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof)
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copying
an act of copying
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action replay, instant replay, replay
the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape
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hangover, holdover
something that has survived from the past
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renewal
the act of renewing
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replication
the repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion
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reprise
the repetition or resumption of some action
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activity
any specific behavior
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discontinuance, discontinuation
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the consequence of being lengthened in duration
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synonyms:
lengthiness, prolongation, protraction
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a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it
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synonyms:
sequel
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prequel
a creative work that relates events taking place before those of an existing work
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addendum, postscript, supplement
textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end
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prequel
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a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction
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synonyms:
good continuation, law of continuation
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Gestalt law of organization, Gestalt principle of organization
a principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization
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Gestalt law of organization, Gestalt principle of organization
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