run-on

  1. Adjective.  Continuing on where a rhetorical pause would be more appropriate.
  2. Noun.  A run-on sentence.
  3. Noun.  Any thing that runs on, as a run-on entry in a dictionary.
  4. Noun.  (context, machining) The period when a power saw or other tool continues to run after being powered off.

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