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Confirmation vs Continuation - What's the difference?

confirmation | continuation |

As nouns the difference between confirmation and continuation

is that confirmation is confirmation while continuation is the act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.

confirmation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An official indicator that things will happen as planned
  • Verification that something has happened
  • A sacrament of sealing and strengthening in many Christian Churches, often including a ceremony of anointing
  • * {{quote-song
    • , year = 1977 , title = (Only the Good Die Young) , composer = (Billy Joel) , album = , passage = You got a nice white dress / and a party on your confirmation . / You've got a brand new soul, / mm, and a cross of gold. }}

    Related terms

    * confirm * confirmational

    continuation

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia continuation) (en noun)
  • The act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
  • That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
    • the continuation of a story
    The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.
  • (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.
  • (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.

    • Related terms

    * continue * continuable * continuative

    Antonyms

    * (act or state of continuing or being continued) termination, discontinuation