Definitions for continuation

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continuation con·tin·u·a·tion

Spelling: [kuh n-tin-yoo-ey-shuh n]

IPA: /kənˌtɪn yuˈeɪ ʃən/

Continuation is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 322 anagrams from letters in continuation (aciinnnoottu).

Definitions for continuation

noun

1. the act or state of continuing; the state of being continued.
2. extension or carrying on to a further point:
3. something that continues some preceding thing by being of the same kind or having a similar content:
4. Library Science. a supplement to a publication previously issued. a work published in continuance of a monograph, serial, or series.
5. British Stock Exchange. contango.

Origin of continuation

1350-1400; Middle English continuacio(u)n (Anglo-French) Latin continuātiōn- (stem of continuātiō). See continuate, -ion

Examples for continuation

Were there ever plans for a sequel to Scissorhands, or a continuation of that story?

And her two daughters-in-law seemed like a continuation of herself.

The Philebus, like the Cratylus, is supposed to be the continuation of a previous discussion.

But will future systems see the continuation of the online pass?

The eight compositions on display at the Sears-Peyton Gallery are a continuation of a body of work.

Apparently it went straight on up and was a continuation of that lower pit.

This obsession with food choice often leads people to cut out the wrong ones, proliferating the continuation of new diets.

Going forward, Republicans are hoping they can use the continuation of sequestration as leverage in future budget showdowns.

It was a narrow apartment, and seemed as if it were the continuation of the corridor.

It is not serious exactly—it is merely, as it were, a continuation of the confession.