continuation

noun

1. The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession
2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.“The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.”
3. 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. 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.