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Suspension   /səspˈɛnʃən/   Listen
noun
Suspension  n.  
1.
The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
2.
Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation; as:
(a)
Of labor, study, pain, etc.
(b)
Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced.
(c)
Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank.
(d)
Of punishment, or sentence of punishment.
(e)
Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman.
(f)
Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act.
3.
A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.
4.
The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state.
5.
(Rhet.) A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed.
6.
(Scots Law) A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
7.
(Mus.) The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation.
Pleas in suspension (Law), pleas which temporarily abate or suspend a suit.
Points of suspension (Mech.), the points, as in the axis or beam of a balance, at which the weights act, or from which they are suspended.
Suspension bridge, a bridge supported by chains, ropes, or wires, which usually pass over high piers or columns at each end, and are secured in the ground beyond.
Suspension of arms (Mil.), a short truce or cessation of operations agreed on by the commanders of contending armies, as for burying the dead, making proposal for surrender or for peace, etc.
Suspension scale, a scale in which the platform hangs suspended from the weighing apparatus instead of resting upon it.
Synonyms: Delay; interruption; intermission; stop.





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"Suspension" Quotes from Famous Books



... Executive Oppression.-1. Military; 2. Searches and seizures; 3. Life, Liberty, or Property; 4. Suspension ...
— Studies in Civics • James T. McCleary
... more or less complete suspension of this faculty is a not uncommon form of mental and bodily illness. We do not so much mean the mere fading of past impressions as the loss of power to recall them, so that we cannot recall what we wish to remember. This is a result of any serious bodily weakness. It will ...
— Papers on Health • John Kirk
... suspension of the session M. Guizot arrived. He ascended the tribune and announced that the King had summoned M. Mole, to charge him with the formation of a ...
— The Memoirs of Victor Hugo • Victor Hugo
... any she had ever seen. She knew they must be the parlor and dining and sleeping cars she had read about. And now they were in the midst of a fleet of steamers and barges, and far ahead loomed the first of Cincinnati's big suspension bridges, pictures of which she had many a time gazed at in wonder. There was a mingling of strange loud noises—whistles, engines, on the water, on shore; there was a multitude of what seemed to her feverish activities—she who had not been out ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... brother Joseph full of contempt for the allies (February 18th). "It is difficult," he writes, "to be so cowardly as that! He [Schwarzenberg] had constantly, and in the most insulting terms, refused a suspension of arms of any kind, ... and yet these wretches at the first check fall on their knees. I will grant no armistice till my territory is clear of them." He adds that he now expected to gain the "natural frontiers" offered by the allies at Frankfurt—the minimum that he could accept with honour; ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose


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