Suspension

Quick meaning: Suspension is a noun meaning The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.

Meaning

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.

More Meanings

1. A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
2. Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
3. The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
4. The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
5. (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
6. (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.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

suspension from a hook

suspension from school as a disciplinary measure

As the solids clump together, they get heavier causing them to fall out of suspension in the water.

Fear of dioxin emissions led to suspension of efforts to establish a waste-to-energy plant at the Brooklyn Navy yard.

Word Forms

• suspensions

Synonyms for suspension

Depending on context, synonyms include halt, intermission, interruption, stop, syncope, respite.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hiatus, pause, reprieve, interruption, respite, abatement.

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