continuation

noun4

1. •
   The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession

   • There is no reason for the continuation of this discrepancy in maximum penalties since the relevant factor here is assault, not the sex of the person assaulted. — 1971
2. •
   That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.

   • The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.
3. •
   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.

   • Whenever a Scheme expression is evaluated a continuation exists that wants the result of the expression. — 1986
4. •
   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.