Word: suspension Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin suspensiōnem (“arching, vaulting; suspension”), from suspendēre (“to hang up, to suspend”), from sub- (“under”) + pendere (“to hang, to suspend”), 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; to spin”)). Compare Anglo-Norman suspensiun, French suspension, Occitan suspensio. Pronunciation: /səˈspɛnʃən/ 1. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: suspension from a hook 2. A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Fear of dioxin emissions led to suspension of efforts to establish a waste-to-energy plant at the Brooklyn Navy yard. 3. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As the solids clump together, they get heavier causing them to fall out of suspension in the water. 4. Thus a kind of silt or sludge. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: suspension from school as a disciplinary measure Example: […] 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. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As in Sequenza IV, the suspension of the chord creates several different layers of activity, which can be understood by looking at the right hand’s chord in bar two. 9. A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: To get an intuitive feeling for the characteristics of H'-spaces, it is instructive to consider an important class of such spaces, the suspensions. The suspension of an arbitrary topological space Y is defined to be the quotient space of Y#92;timesI where Y#92;times 0 is identified to one point and Y#92;times 1 is identified to another point. For example, the suspension of a circle is a cylinder with the two ends collapsed into one point each; in other words, a space homeomorphic to a sphere. 11. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A model category is called pointed if the initial object and terminal object are the same. The homotopy category of any pointed model category acquires a suspension functor denoted by #92;Sigma. It turns out that #92;text#123;Ho#125;(M) is a pre-triangulated category in a natural way[…]. When the suspension is an equivalence, M is called a stable model category, and in this case #92;text#123;Ho#125;(M) becomes a triangulated category[…]. 12. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If you drive over a speed bump, the left and right tires push the suspension upward at the same time.