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Continuance vs Continuation - What's the difference?

continuance | continuation |

As nouns the difference between continuance and continuation

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

continuance

English

Alternative forms

* continuaunce

Noun

  • (uncountable) The action of continuing.
  • (countable, legal) An order issued by a court granting a postponement of a legal proceeding for a set period.

    • Antonyms

    * discontinuance

    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