suspension
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Synonyms: suspensive, suspensor, suspensions, resuspension, sustention, suspection, suspensation, outpension
Antonyms: suspensive, suspensor, suspensions, resuspension, sustention, suspection, suspensation, outpension
Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.
Noun
- The act of [[suspending]], or the state of being [[suspended]].
- A [[temporary]] or [[conditional]] delay, [[interruption]] or [[discontinuation]].
- {{lb|en|chemistry|physics}} The state of a [[solid]] or [[substance]] produced when its [[particle]]s are mixed with, but not [[dissolve|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.
- {{lb|en|education}} The process of [[bar#Verb|barring]] a [[student]] from [[school]] grounds as a form of [[punishment]] (particularly {{l|en|out-of-school suspension}}).
- {{lb|en|music}} The act of or [[discord]] produced by [[prolong]]ing one or more [[tone#Noun|tones]] of a [[chord]] into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the [[concord]] which the ear expects.
- {{lb|en|Scots law}} A [[stay]] or [[postponement]] of the [[execution]] of a [[sentence]], usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the [[Lord Ordinary]].
- {{lb|en|topology}} A [[topological space]] derived from another by taking the [[product]] of the original space with an [[interval]] and [[collapse|collapsing]] each end of the product to a [[point]].
- {{lb|en|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.
- {{lb|en|vehicle}} The [[system]] of [[spring#Noun|springs]] and [[shock absorber]]s connected to the [[wheel#Noun|wheels]] in an [[automobile]], which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced [[shock#Noun|shock]] to its occupants.
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