continuation

Primary Meanings of continuation

1.	n	the act of continuing an activity without interruption
2.	n	the consequence of being lengthened in duration
3.	n	a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it
4.	n	a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction

Full Definitions of continuation

Antonyms:: discontinuance, discontinuation
the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent)

Types:: show 16 types...; hide 16 types...; lengthening, perpetuation, prolongation, protraction
the act of prolonging something; repeating, repetition
the act of doing or performing again; perseverance, perseveration, persistence
the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior; abidance
the act of abiding (enduring without yielding); prosecution, pursuance
the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion; survival
something that survives; custom, usage, usance
accepted or habitual practice; echolalia
(psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia); iteration
doing or saying again; a repeated performance; redundancy
repetition of an act needlessly; reduplication, reiteration
the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof); copying
an act of copying; action replay, instant replay, replay
the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape; hangover, holdover
something that has survived from the past; renewal
the act of renewing; replication
the repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion

Types:: fermata
(music) a prolongation of unspecified length on a note or chord or rest

Type of:: addendum, postscript, supplement
textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end

Type of:: Gestalt law of organization, Gestalt principle of organization
a principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization