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suspension

noun
/səˈspɛnʃən/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin suspensiōnem (“arching, vaulting; suspension”), from suspendēre (“to hang up, to suspend”), from sub- (“under”) + pendere (“to hang, to suspend”), from Proto-Italic *pendō (“to hang, to put in a hanging position”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-e-ti, from *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”)). Compare Anglo-Norman suspensiun, French suspension, Occitan suspensio.

  1. derived from *(s)péndeti✻
  2. derived from *pendō✻
  3. borrowed from suspensiō

Definitions

  1. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.

    • suspension from a hook

  2. A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.

    • Fear of dioxin emissions led to suspension of efforts to establish a waste-to-energy plant at the Brooklyn Navy yard.

  3. The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not…

    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.

    • As the solids clump together, they get heavier causing them to fall out of suspension in the water.
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. Thus a kind of silt or sludge.

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

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

    3. The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation…

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

    4. The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment…

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

      • suspension from school as a disciplinary measure

    5. The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord…

      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.

      • As in Sequenza IV, the suspension of the chord creates several different layers of activity, which can be understood by looking at the right hand’s chord in bar two.

    6. A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension…

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

    7. A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with…

      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.

    8. A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s…

      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.

    9. The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which…

      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.

      • If you drive over a speed bump, the left and right tires push the suspension upward at the same time.

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Derived

4-3 suspension, 7-6 suspension, 9-8 suspension, air suspension, biosuspension, colposuspension, cryosuspension, in-school suspension, microsuspension, nanosuspension, out-of-school suspension, pleas in suspension, points of suspension, presuspension, resuspension, suicide suspension, suspension bridge, suspension dots, suspensionless, suspension of arms, suspension of disbelief, suspension points, suspension scale, suspension syndrome, suspension trauma, unsuspension, willing suspension of disbelief

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at suspension. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at suspension. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at suspension

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA