See Also: continuation(dictionary)
continuation(dictionary)
azygos continuation(medicine)
Continuation Statement(money)
continuation school(dictionary)
Continuation Stroke - Croquet(gambling)
azygos continuation of interrupted ivc(medicine)

continuation (iou)



continuation noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin continuatio(n-), from continuat- pa. ppl stem of continuare: see CONTINUE, -ATION.]
The action of continuing in something; = CONTINUANCE 3. LME-L15.
Continuity in space or of substance. LME-E18.
The action or fact of remaining in a state; continuous or prolonged existence or operation. LME.
G. B. Shaw To impose a continuation of marriage on people who have ceased to desire to be married.
b. The action or fact of remaining in a place. M-L17.
Scots Law. Adjournment, prorogation. Long rare. LME.
Something which continues another thing; an additional part or parts. LME.
with continuation of days Scots Law with allowance for the possible adjournment of the matter to a date later than that cited.
J. Gardner The page four continuation of a front-page story.
The carrying on or resumption of an action, course, story, etc. L16.
Stock Exchange. The carrying over of an account to the next settling day. E19.
In pl. Gaiters (as a continuation of knee-breeches worn by bishops etc.); trousers (as a continuation of the waistcoat). arch. slang. E19.
Comb.: continuation day = contango day s.v. CONTANGO noun; continuation school Hist. a school for the additional teaching in spare time of those who had left full-time education.