/keuhn tin'yooh ay"sheuhn/ , n.
1. the act or state of continuing; the state of being continued.
2. extension or carrying on to a further point: to request the continuation of a loan.
3. something that continues some preceding thing by being of the same kind or having a similar content: Today's weather will be a continuation of yesterday's.
4. Library Science.
a. a supplement to a publication previously issued.
b. a work published in continuance of a monograph, serial, or series.
5. Brit. Stock Exchange. contango.
[ 1350-1400; ME continuacio ( u ) n ( continuation- (s. of continuatio ). See CONTINUATE, -ION ]