suspension

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noun

Plural noun:

suspensions

1.
(countable, uncountable)The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
suspension from a hook
2.
(countable, uncountable)A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
3.
(countable, uncountable)(chemistry, physics) The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
4.
(countable, uncountable)Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
5.
(countable, uncountable)The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
6.
(countable, uncountable)The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
7.
(countable, uncountable)(education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
suspension from school as a disciplinary measure
[…] Donna Thomas, John Tiedeman, David Jones, and Richard Williams, all students in the Granville Junior-Senior High School, conceived a plan in November 1978 to produce a satirical publication addressed to the school community. […] [Assistant Principal Frederick] Reed summoned Tiedeman and discussed with him the “dangers” of publishing material that might offend or hurt others. Specifically, he told Tiedeman that a similar publication several years before had culminated in the suspension of the students involved.
8.
(countable, uncountable)(music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
9.
(countable, uncountable)(Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
10.
(countable, uncountable)(topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
11.
(countable, uncountable)(topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.
12.
(countable, uncountable)(vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.

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out-of-school suspensionsyncope halt intermission interruption stopeducation out-of-school suspensionmusic syncope

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microsuspension4-3 suspension7-6 suspension9-8 suspensionair suspensionbiosuspensioncryosuspensionin-school suspensionnanosuspensionout-of-school suspensionpleas in suspensionpoints of suspensionpresuspension resuspensionsuspension bridgesuspension of armssuspension of disbeliefsuspension scalesuspensionlesswilling suspension of disbelief

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suspensiōnem (arching#Noun), from suspendēre (to [[hang up, to suspend), from sub- (under) + pendere (to [[hang#Verb), from Proto-Italic *pendō (to hang, to put in a hanging position), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-e-ti, from *(s)pend- (to [[pull#Verb)). Compare suspensiun, suspension, suspensio.