different between progression vs continuation

English

Etymology

From Old French progression.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p????????n/

Noun

progression (countable and uncountable, plural progressions)

1. The act of moving from one thing to another.
2. The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
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     The lowest risk for kidney disease progression seemed to be at levels of current systolic blood pressure of 110 to 129 mm Hg.

3. (mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
4. Development, increase, evolution.
5. (music) chord progression
6. (exercise) The making an exercise more exerting by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.

Antonyms

• regress
• retrogression

Synonyms

• (mathematics): sequence

Derived terms

Related terms

• progress

Translations

Finnish

Noun

progression

1. Genitive singular form of progressio.

French

Etymology

From Latin progressionem (accusative of progressio).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.???.sj??/

Noun

progression f (plural progressions)

1. progression

Further reading

• “progression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

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)