CONTINUANCE Synonyms

• the act of continuing an activity without interruption

• a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it

• a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction

• the consequence of being lengthened in duration

• the property of holding together and retaining its shape

• a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts

• logical coherence and accordance with the facts

• (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another

• the power to withstand hardship or stress

• a state of surviving; remaining alive

• a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt

• act of expanding in scope; making more widely available

• the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions

• an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students

• act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb

• a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename

• the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to

• the ability to raise the working leg high in the air

• amount or degree or range to which something extends

• an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line

• an addition to the length of something

• an addition that extends a main building

• continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place

• retained; not shed

• existing for a long time

• lasting a long time without change

• duration of service

• the property of being long-lived

• activity involved in maintaining something in good working order

• means of maintenance of a family or group

• court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated

• the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence

• the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community

• the act of prolonging something

• persistent determination

• the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior

• the property of a continuous and connected period of time

• persistent determination

• the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior

• a series with a definite pattern of advance

• a movement forward

• the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

• the consequence of being lengthened in duration

• the act of prolonging something

• the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit

• an occurrence of rebounding or springing back

• the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast

• a stable order (especially of society)

• the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation

• a state of surviving; remaining alive

• a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

• something that survives

• persistent determination