Continuance

1. n. The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record.
2. n. A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.
3. n. Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal; perpetuation; propagation.
4. n. A holding together; continuity.
5. n. The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.