different between continuation vs postponement

English

Etymology

From Middle English continuacion, from Old French continuation, from Latin continu?ti?.Morphologically continue +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?nt?nj??e??(?)n/
• Hyphenation: con?tin?u?a?tion
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

continuation (countable and uncountable, plural continuations)

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

   Synonyms: prolongation, propagation

   Antonyms: discontinuation, termination

2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.

   the continuation of a story

   The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.

3. (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.
4. (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.

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References

• continuation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Middle French continuation, from Old French continuation, borrowed from Latin continu?ti?, continu?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

Noun

continuation f (plural continuations)

1. continuation (act of continuing)

Derived terms

• bonne continuation

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French continuation.

Noun

continuation f (plural continuations)

1. continuation (act of continuing)

Descendants

• French: continuation

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)

Old French

Etymology

Late Old French, borrowed from Latin continu?ti?, continu?ti?nem.

Noun

continuation f (oblique plural continuations, nominative singular continuation, nominative plural continuations)

1. continuation (act of continuing)

Descendants

• Middle French: continuation
  • French: continuation
• ? Middle English: continuacion
  • English: continuation

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)

English

Etymology

postpone +? -ment

Noun

postponement (countable and uncountable, plural postponements)

1. A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.

Synonyms

• cunctation, hold-up; see also Thesaurus:delay

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