suspension
The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
Example
“suspension from a hook”
Other meanings
A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
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.
A kind of
- mixture
Kinds of suspension
- slurry
- vapor
- milk of lime
Related words
- microsuspension
- air suspension
- biosuspension
- cryosuspension
- in-school suspension
- nanosuspension
- out-of-school suspension
- pleas in suspension
- points of suspension
- presuspension
- resuspension
- suspension bridge
Word history
From Latin "suspensiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “suspension” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.