Continuatie

Continuatie is a Dutch noun meaning continuation or follow-up: the act of continuing something that was started earlier, or the result of such continuation. It is used in everyday language as well as in technical contexts to denote the extension of a process, event, or narrative beyond a given point. The term comes from Latin continuatio and entered Dutch with the general sense of carrying onward.

In mathematics, the term appears in the concept of analytic continuation, the process of extending the domain of a given analytic function beyond its original region of definition while preserving its analytic form. Dutch usage may render this as analytische continuatie or analytische voortzetting, depending on author and context.

In computer science, continuatie (continuation) refers to the rest of a computation at a given point. It is central to continuation-passing style and related control-flow concepts. A continuation can be treated as a function that represents "the remainder of the computation" and can be used to model features such as non-local control transfer, backtracking, coroutines, and asynchronous programming.

In other domains, continuatie also appears in discussions of discourse, plan execution, or project management to denote the act of continuing a previous line of inquiry or operation. The precise meaning is often determined by discipline and context, but the core idea remains the same: extending, carrying on, or following up on something that has begun.

See also analytic continuation; continuation-passing style; discourse analysis; control flow.