continuation

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act or fact of going on or persisting.
• noun The state of continuing in the same condition, capacity, or place.
• noun An extension by which something is carried to a further point.
• noun The act or fact of beginning again after stopping; resumption.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act or fact of continuing or prolonging; extension of existence in a lino or series.
• noun Extension or carrying on to a further point; the thing continued: as, the continuation of a story.
• noun Extension in space; a carrying on in length; prolongation: as, the continuation of a line in surveying.
• noun In mathematics, a process in fluxions equivalent to integration by parts.
• noun plural Trousers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
• noun That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
• noun That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
• noun 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.
• noun 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it
• noun the act of continuing an activity without interruption
• noun a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction
• noun the consequence of being lengthened in duration