suspension

suspension
suspension [sə spen′shən]
n.
[ML suspensio < LL, an arching < L suspensus: see SUSPENSE]
1. a suspending or being suspended; specif.,
a) a temporary barring from an office, school, etc.
b) a temporary stoppage of payment, service, etc.
c) a temporary canceling, as of rules
d) a deferring of action on a sentence
e) a holding back of a judgment, etc.
2. a supporting device or framework upon or from which something is suspended
3. the system of springs, shocks, etc. supporting a vehicle upon its undercarriage or axles
4. the act or means of suspending the balance or pendulum in a timepiece
5. Chem.
a) the condition of a substance whose particles are dispersed through a fluid but not dissolved in it, esp. the condition of one having relatively large particles that will separate out on standing: cf. COLLOID
b) a substance in this condition
6. Music
a) the continuing of one or more tones of one chord into a following chord while the other tones are changed, so that a temporary dissonance is created
b) the tone or tones so continued

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