An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
CONTINUATION
continuance, continuation
(noun) the act of continuing an activity without interruption
lengthiness, prolongation, continuation, protraction
(noun) the consequence of being lengthened in duration
sequel, continuation
(noun) a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
continuation (countable and uncountable, plural continuations)
The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession
Synonyms: prolongation, propagation
Antonyms: discontinuation, termination
That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
(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.
Hyponyms
((computing) representation of an execution state of a program):
• first-class continuation
• second-class continuation
Source: Wiktionary
Con*tin`u*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. continuatio: cf. F. connuation.]
1. That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation. Preventing the continuation of the royal line. Macaulay.
2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story. My continuation of the version of Statius. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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