Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession

    Fortsetzung

    продолже́ниеprodolžénije, континуа́цияkontinuácija

    продо́вженняprodóvžennja

    the act of continuing an activity without interruption

  2. (countable, uncountable)That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.

    the continuation of a story

    The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.

  3. (countable)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. (countable)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.

Examples

16 sentences
  1. War is the continuation of politics by other means.

    Війна — це продовження політики іншими засобами.

    ruВойна есть продолжение политики другими средствами.

    deKrieg ist die Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · Hybrid · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  2. War is a continuation of politics.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · Adelpa · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  3. Politics is the continuation of war with dangerous threats.

    dePolitik ist die Fortsetzung des Krieges mit gefährlichen Drohungen.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · Kiwi · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  4. Peace is the continuation of war with other means.

    deFriede ist die Fortsetzung des Krieges mit anderen Mitteln.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · Objectivesea · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  5. Maria was tasked with the continuation of the work.

    deMaria ist mit der Fortführung der Arbeit beauftragt worden.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · MrOhno · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
act or state of continuing:
Русский
By meaning 1
act or state of continuing:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
act or state of continuing:

Origin

From Middle English continuacion, from Old French continuation, from Latin continuātiō. Mo

From Middle English continuacion, from Old French continuation, from Latin continuātiō. Morphologically continue + -ation.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: continuations
Singularcontinuation
Pluralcontinuations

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

14 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
continuation — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto