abatement vs suspension

abatement

noun
  • The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression. 

  • The reduction of the proceeds of a will, when the debts have not yet been satisfied; the reduction of taxes due. 

  • The action of a person that abates, or without proper authority enters a residence after the death of the owner and before the heir takes possession. 

  • An amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed; in particular from a tax. 

  • Waste of stuff in preparing to size. 

  • A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon; any figure added to the coat of arms tending to lower the dignity or station of the bearer. 

suspension

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

  • Thus a kind of silt or sludge. 

  • The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension). 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation. 

  • The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct. 

  • A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary. 

  • 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. 

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