suspension

See also Suspension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /səˈspɛnʃən/, X-SAMPA: /s@"spEnS@n/

Noun

suspension (plural suspensions)

1. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
2. A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
3. 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.
4. The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
5. The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile or car, which allow the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
6. (Scots Law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
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.
8. (topology) 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.
9. (topology) 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.

Synonyms

• delay, interruption, intermission, stop

Derived terms

Derived terms

4-3 suspension 9-8 suspension

Related terms

Related terms

pleas in suspension points of suspension suspension bridge suspension of arms suspension scale

Translations

act of suspending or state of being suspended

• Finnish: keskeytys (fi), peruutus (fi)
• German: Aussetzung (de) f
• Greek: ανάρτηση (el) (anártisi) f, κρέμασμα (el) (krémasma) n

• Italian: sospensione (it)
• Turkish: askıya alma (tr)

temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation

• Finnish: keskeytys (fi)
• German: Aussetzung (de) f
• Greek: διαθεσιμότητα (el) (diathesimótita) f
• Italian: sospensione (it)

• Russian: приостановление (ru) (priostanovlénije) n, приостановка (ru) (priostanóvka) n, прекращение (ru) (prekraščénije) n
• Turkish: durdurma (tr)

state of a solid when mixed with, but not dissolved in a fluid

• Finnish: suspensio (fi)
• German: Suspension (de) f

• Greek: αιώρημα (el) (aiórima) n
• Turkish: süspansiyon (tr)

act of keeping a person listening in doubt and expectation

• Finnish: jännitys (fi)

system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile or car

• German: Aufhängung (de) f, Federung (de) f
• Italian: sospensione (it) f, balestra (it) f

• Turkish: amortisör (tr)

law: stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence

• Greek: εκκρεμότητα (el) (ekkremótita) f

prolonging of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows

• Dutch: voorhouding (nl) f

• Finnish: pidätys (fi)

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• Spanish: suspensión

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Finnish

Noun

suspension

1. Genitive singular form of suspensio.