continuation statement; continued statement
In programming, a statement that continues a previous one, often used in languages like COBOL or Fortran where a line can be continued on the next line.
COBOLでは、行の終わりにハイフンを置くと継続文になる。
In COBOL, placing a hyphen at the end of a line makes it a continuation statement.
Compound of 継続 (continuation) and 文 (sentence, statement). A technical term likely coined for computing contexts.