suspension
IPA: sʌspˈɛnʃʌn
noun
- The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
- A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
- (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.
- Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
- The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
- The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
- (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
- (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.
- (Scotland, law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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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Examples of "suspension" in Sentences
- He rescinded the suspension.
- The suspension part of the article is huge.
- Clarkson ridicules the antiquated suspension.
- The trial resulted in the suspension of Onderdonk.
- The only question is that of the duration of the suspension.
- This lead to the suspension of the liturgy in the cathedral.
- Now, in the absence of any other information, what is implicit in the word "suspension?"
- No way would he get any kind of suspension because intent would not be provable thus a long term suspension would not be possible.
- "I've instructed Michael not to be on air while we make further investigations," Mott said, unwilling to use the word "suspension".
- The European Union lifted diplomatic sanctions, and Cuba's suspension from the Organization of American States has been ended as well.
- A long-term suspension or lifetime bar may apply for more serious offenses, such as forging customers' signatures or felony convictions.
- Michael Boley was signed to solidify the weakside post, but he recently had hip surgery and incurred a one-game suspension from the league.
- It's a phrase we take for granted now, but the term "suspension of disbelief" was coined by the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834.
- The school's code of conduct doesn't list sexual harassment, but does mention possession of any gun, rifle, pistol, firearm, prohibited substance or assault of a school employee as grounds for long-term suspension.
- More recently, after reports surfaced that Mathieu, running back Spencer Ware and cornerback Tharold Simon would be suspended for L.S.U.'s game against Auburn, Miles batted away the word "suspension" in a way that was almost Clintonian.
- So the Blackbeard West well, which we had set pipe on, and we're awaiting information from Blackbeard East and Blackbeard West, 188 that big 25,000 units being held by production, or what we call suspension of production, and this well was significant because it satisfied the requirement of the BOEM to hold that 25 down there.