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CONTINUATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of continuing an activity without interruption
Synonyms:
continuance; continuation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("continuation" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "continuation"):
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)
Antonym:
discontinuation (the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent))
Derivation:
continue (continue talking)
continue (move ahead; travel onward in time or space)
continue (continue a certain state, condition, or activity)
continue (continue after an interruption)
continue (do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The consequence of being lengthened in duration
Synonyms:
continuation; lengthiness; prolongation; protraction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("continuation" is a kind of...):
duration; length (continuance in time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "continuation"):
fermata ((music) a prolongation of unspecified length on a note or chord or rest)
Derivation:
continue (exist over a prolonged period of time)
continue (continue talking)
continue (allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature)
continue (continue a certain state, condition, or activity)
continue (continue in a place, position, or situation)
continue (continue after an interruption)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction
Synonyms:
continuation; good continuation; law of continuation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("continuation" is a kind of...):
Gestalt law of organization; Gestalt principle of organization (a principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A part added to a book or play that continues and extends it
Synonyms:
continuation; sequel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("continuation" is a kind of...):
addendum; postscript; supplement (textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end)
Context examples:
The vein accompanying the femoral artery in the same sheath; it is a continuation of the popliteal vein and becomes the external iliac vein.
(Femoral Vein, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A continuation of the sigmoid sinus of the dura mater; joins the subclavian vein to form the brachiocephalic vein.
(Internal Jugular Vein, NCI Thesaurus)
Tubular structure in continuation with the trachea, serving as air passage.
(Bronchus, NCI Thesaurus)
This academy is not an entire single building, but a continuation of several houses on both sides of a street, which growing waste, was purchased and applied to that use.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
A vein that represents a continuation of the angular vein and lies behind the facial artery.
(Anterior Facial Vein, NCI Thesaurus)
The continuation of the axillary artery; it branches into the radial and ulnar arteries.
(Brachial Artery, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
To Marianne, indeed, the meeting between Edward and her sister was but a continuation of that unaccountable coldness which she had often observed at Norland in their mutual behaviour.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
A vein in the face accompanying the facial artery that is a direct continuation of the angular vein and ultimately empties into the internal jugular vein.
(Facial Vein, NCI Thesaurus)
In an individual with a left-dominant heart, this branch arises from the circumflex artery atrioventricular groove continuation and supplies the inferior apex of the heart.
(Left Posterolateral Descending Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
In an individual with a left-dominant heart, this is the first branch that arises from the circumflex artery atrioventricular groove continuation when counted from proximal to distal.
(First Left Posterolateral Branch Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
