continuation vs hiatus

continuation

noun
  • The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession 

  • That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on. 

  • A representation of an execution state of a program at a certain point in time, which may be used at a later time to resume the execution of the program from that point. 

  • A successful shot that, despite a foul, is made with a single continuous motion beginning before the foul, and that is therefore valid in certain forms of basketball. 

hiatus

noun
  • An interruption, break or pause. 

  • A gap in a series, making it incomplete. 

  • An opening in an organ. 

  • A gap in geological strata. 

  • A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.) 

  • An unexpected break from work. 

How often have the words continuation and hiatus occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )