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Definition of Good continuation

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Good Continuation

Literary usage of Good continuation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Musical World (1869)
"... for example, was a good beginning; and Sterndale Bennett's Caprice in E for piano and orchestra, a hardly less good continuation. The tolo instrument in ..."

2. The Electrical Review (1878)
"But while it is not cheerful to make a bad beginning, it is better to have a bad beginning and a good continuation than vice versa, as is too often the case ..."

3. Westminster Papers: A Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill and by Westminster Chess Club, London (1879)
"(c) For the reasons given in the last note, this is a good continuation. (f) This line of play, which otherwise I should not approve of, is invited by ..."

4. Three Lectures on Vocational Training by Georg Kerschensteiner (1911)
"It is very probable that most towns will have financial difficulties in equipping really good continuation schools for both boys and girls at the same time. ..."

5. The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence (1833)
"It also expressed an opinion, that the new process would not be a good continuation of writs issued previous to this Act coming into operation. ..."

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