suspension
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
education
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
topology
transport
vehicles
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.
Inflected forms:
form: suspensions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: suspension from a hook
gloss: A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Fear of dioxin emissions led to suspension of efforts to establish a waste-to-energy plant at the Brooklyn Navy yard.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As the solids clump together, they get heavier causing them to fall out of suspension in the water.
gloss: Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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[…].
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If you drive over a speed bump, the left and right tires push the suspension upward at the same time.
Synonyms: out-of-school suspension
intermission
interruption
stop
syncope
Related words: suspend
suspendable
suspender
suspense
suspenseful
suspensefully
suspensefulness
suspenseless
suspenser
suspensive
suspensively
suspensiveness
suspensorium
Derived words: 4-3 suspension
7-6 suspension
9-8 suspension
air suspension
biosuspension
colposuspension
cryosuspension
in-school suspension
microsuspension
nanosuspension
out-of-school suspension
pleas in suspension
points of suspension
presuspension
resuspension
suicide suspension
suspension bridge
suspension dots
suspensionless
suspension of arms
suspension of disbelief
suspension points
suspension scale
suspension syndrome
suspension trauma
unsuspension
willing suspension of disbelief
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