The deliberate delaying of obligatory action.
A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
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.
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.
The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.