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Continuation vs Length - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between continuation and length

is that continuation is the act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation while length is the distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.

As a verb length is

to lengthen.

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

    length

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
  • duration
  • * Robert Frost
    • Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length .
  • (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
  • (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
  • (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
  • (figuratively) Total extent.
    • the length of a book
  • Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
    • a length of rope

    Derived terms

    * arm's length * at length * cable length * feature-length * floor-length * focal length * full-length * good length * go to great lengths * half-length * knee-length * lengthen * lengthful * length overall * lengthways * lengthwise * lengthy * line and length * null patch length * overlength * path length * screening length * short of a length * wavelength * zero-length launching

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To lengthen.
  • * 1599 , , XIV. 30:
    • Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.

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