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What does continuation mean?

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Noun
  1. The act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
  2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
  3. (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.
  4. (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.
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The continuation of war-time rationing squeezed living standards, while exports were increased.
In order to ensure the continuation of the species, society has also valued women who are good nurturers and adorners.
A continuation of the river may be found at the bottom of the mud slope, but the way on is to traverse round to the right.
The proceeding is not one for the adjudgment of private grievances, but is to prevent the continuation of public wrong and public wrongdoing.
Medieval witchcraft was not a rebellion against orthodoxy so much as a continuation of heathen impulses.
It's a teleological structure, but the successful continuation of the presence of the interactive focus defers and ultimately defeats the telos.

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