continuance
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Again, some consonants are shorter by nature than others: the explosives, p, t, k, etc., than the continuants s, z, th, f, m, n, l, etc.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
The theory of continuants is due in the first place to Euler.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various