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.
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.