continuation

Noun

1. The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession
   • 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. - 1971, “Demand”, in Body Politic, number 1, page 4:

   Synonyms: prolongation propagation

   Antonyms: discontinuation termination

2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
   • the continuation of a story
   • The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.
3. 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.
   • Whenever a Scheme expression is evaluated a continuation exists that wants the result of the expression. - 1986, “MIT/GNU Scheme 10.1.11”, in The GNU Operating System:
4. 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.