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continuum
A continuousseries or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent parts, although the ends or extremes of it are very different from each other.
(music) A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are 1⁄100 of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.
“This bureaucracy has maintained its continuity over several centuries.”
“He declined to yield, and thus preserved the continuity of his speech.”
“On the surface, there is a continuity of events which is reconstructed as a familiar sequence of episodes from the past.”
continuation
The act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
(computing) 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.
(basketball) 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.
“The annual Budget is a natural process of continuation of financial policies, and it should build upon the edifice that exists already.”
“The continuation of his speech, however, without greeting the chorus or entering into conversation with them, hardly conveys the impression of deep, self-absorbed emotion.”
“Once a separate village, it is now a continuation of the suburbs.”
continue
(video game) an option allowing a gamer to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost.
(programming) a statement which causes a loop to start executing the next iteration, skipping the statements following it
“Everything in the universe is dependent on something without itself for the continuance of its existence.”
“Our calculations provide the exact cost increases necessary for the continuance of the program.”
“If the country had been unfortunately subjected to the excitement of a long continuance of excessive expenditure, it surely must be against all analogy and all general principles.”
continued
the word continued when placed in the end of the page to show it is to be continued
“The two continuums frequently overlap, which is what makes it hard to decipher all the metamessages at play in a conversation.”
“No analysis connects themes to their historical context, literary tropes, or traditional folkloric continuums.”
“Do expatriate writers and artists create cultural continuums that have more to do with a sense of regional internationalism than the binary of motherland and exile?”