A datastructure or procedure containing or implementing the rest of a computation remaining to be done. See call/cc.

Con*tin`u*a"tion (?), n. [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.

 

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