Crossword clues for suspension
suspension
- A temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc)
- The act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
- A mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle
- An interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- A mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suspension \Sus*pen"sion\, n. [Cf. F. suspension, L. suspensio arched work, imperfect pronunciation. See Suspend.]
The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
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Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation; as:
Of labor, study, pain, etc.
Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced.
Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank.
Of punishment, or sentence of punishment.
Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman.
Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act.
A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.
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.
(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.
(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.
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(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.
Syn: Delay; interruption; intermission; stop.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "a temporary halting or deprivation," from Latin suspensionem (nominative suspensio) "the act or state of hanging up, a vaulting," noun of action, from past participle stem of suspendere "to hang up, cause to hang, suspend" (see suspend). Suspension of disbelief is from Coleridge:\nA semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
["Biographia Literaria," 1817]
\nMeaning "action of hanging by a support from above" is attested from 1540s. Meaning "particles suspended in liquid without dissolving" is from 1707. Suspension-bridge first recorded 1819 (earlier suspended bridge, 1796).Wiktionary
n. 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 dissolve 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 (context Scots Law English) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary. 7 (context music English) 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 (context topology English) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapse each end of the product to a point. 9 (context topology English) 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. 10 (context education English) The process of barring a student from school grounds by means of punishment.
WordNet
n. a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy
a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something [syn: pause, intermission, break, interruption]
temporary cessation or suspension [syn: abeyance]
an interruption in the intensity or amount of something [syn: respite, reprieve, hiatus, abatement]
a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle [syn: suspension system]
the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely); "there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait" [syn: dangling, hanging]
a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc) [syn: temporary removal]
Wikipedia
A suspension is the act of suspending a human body from hooks that have been put through body piercings. These piercings are temporary and are performed just prior to the actual suspension.
Suspension is a form of punishment that people receive for violating rules and regulations.
A motorcycle's suspension serves a dual purpose: contributing to the vehicle's handling and braking, and providing safety and comfort by keeping the vehicle's passengers comfortably isolated from road noise, bumps and vibrations.
The typical motorcycle has a pair of fork tubes for the front suspension, and a swingarm with one or two shock absorbers for the rear suspension.
Suspension is a 2008 American science-fiction film directed by Alec Joler and Ethan Shaftel. In 2007, Suspension won the 'Spirit of the Independents' Award at the Ft Lauderdale Film Festival. It received a special opening night preview screening at the Sedona International Film Festival, and competed at the Sci Fi London Festival, the Cinequest Film Festival, and the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film. It was released on DVD and streaming in North America and Australia.
Suspension may refer to:
In science and engineering:
- Suspension (topology), in mathematics
- Suspension (dynamical systems), in mathematics
- Suspension of a ring, in mathematics
- Suspension (chemistry), mixture of two chemicals with the property that one does not rapidly settle out
- Suspension (vehicle), system of linkages that connects a vehicle to its wheels
- Suspension (motorcycle), system of linkages that connects a motorcycle to its wheels
- Bicycle suspension, system of linkages that connects a bicycle to its wheels
- The superstructure of a suspension bridge
- Suspensory behavior, a type of arboreal locomotion most popularly exhibited by primates
Temporary revocation of privileges:
- Suspension (punishment), form of punishment for violating rules in the workforce and academia
- Suspension of driving privileges ("suspended driver's license")
- Administrative License Suspension (ALS), a form of driving privilege suspension that does not require a court hearing
Miscellaneous:
- A form of scribal abbreviation in medieval manuscripts
- Suspended animation, a dormant state or frozen effects of time
- Suspension (music), one or more notes temporarily held before resolving to a chord tone
- Suspension (film), 2008 film directed by Alec Joler and Ethan Shaftel
Eroticism:
- Suspension bondage, the act of suspending a human body using suspension ropes, cables, or chains
- Suspension (body modification), the act of suspending a human body from hooks that have been put through body piercings
In chemistry, a suspension is a heterogeneous mixture containing solid particles that are sufficiently large for sedimentation. Usually they must be larger than one micrometer. It is when particles are left floating around freely in a solvent. The internal phase (solid) is dispersed throughout the external phase (fluid) through mechanical agitation, with the use of certain excipients or suspending agents. Unlike colloids, suspensions will eventually settle. An example of a suspension would be sand in water. The suspended particles are visible under a microscope and will settle over time if left undisturbed. This distinguishes a suspension from a colloid, in which the suspended particles are smaller and do not settle. Colloids and suspensions are different from solutions, in which the dissolved substance (solute) does not exist as a solid, and solvent and solute are homogeneously mixed.
A suspension of liquid droplets or fine solid particles in a gas is called an aerosol or particulate. In the atmosphere these consist of fine dust and soot particles, sea salt, biogenic and volcanogenic sulfates, nitrates, and cloud droplets.
Suspensions are classified on the basis of the dispersed phase and the dispersion medium, where the former is essentially solid while the latter may either be a solid, a liquid, or a gas.
In modern chemical process industries, high shear mixing technology has been used to create many novel suspensions.
Suspensions are unstable from the thermodynamic point of view; however, they can be kinetically stable over a large period of time, which determines their shelf life. This time span needs to be measured to ensure the best product quality to the final consumer. "Dispersion stability refers to the ability of a dispersion to resist change in its properties over time." D.J. McClements.
Suspension is the system of tires, tire air, springs, shock absorbers and linkages that connects a vehicle to its wheels and allows relative motion between the two. Suspension systems serve a dual purpose — contributing to the vehicle's roadholding/ handling and braking for good active safety and driving pleasure, and keeping vehicle occupants comfortable and a ride quality reasonably well isolated from road noise, bumps, vibrations,etc. These goals are generally at odds, so the tuning of suspensions involves finding the right compromise. It is important for the suspension to keep the road wheel in contact with the road surface as much as possible, because all the road or ground forces acting on the vehicle do so through the contact patches of the tires. The suspension also protects the vehicle itself and any cargo or luggage from damage and wear. The design of front and rear suspension of a car may be different.
In topology, the suspension SX of a topological space X is the quotient space:
SX = (X × I)/{(x, 0) ∼ (x, 0)and (x, 1) ∼ (x, 1)for all x, x ∈ X}
of the product of X with the unit interval I = [0, 1]. Thus, X is stretched into a cylinder and then both ends are collapsed to points. One views X as "suspended" between the end points. One can also view the suspension as two cones on X glued together at their base (or as a quotient of a single cone).
Given a continuous map f : X → Y, there is a map Sf : SX → SY defined by Sf([x, t]) : = [f(x), t]. This makes S into a functor from the category of topological spaces into itself. In rough terms S increases the dimension of a space by one: it takes an n- sphere to an (n + 1)-sphere for n ≥ 0.
The space SX is homeomorphic to the join X ⋆ S, where S is a discrete space with two points.
The space SX is sometimes called the unreduced, unbased, or free suspension of X, to distinguish it from the reduced suspension described below.
The suspension can be used to construct a homomorphism of homotopy groups, to which the Freudenthal suspension theorem applies. In homotopy theory, the phenomena which are preserved under suspension, in a suitable sense, make up stable homotopy theory.
Suspension is a construction passing from a map to a flow. Namely, let X be a metric space, f : X → X be a continuous map and r : X → R be a function (roof function or ceiling function) bounded away from 0. Consider the quotient space
X = {(x, t) : 0 ≤ t ≤ r(x), x ∈ X}/(x, r(x)) ∼ (fx, 0).
The suspension of (X, f) with roof function r is the semiflow f : X → X induced by the time-translation T : X × R → X × R, (x, s) ↦ (x, s + t).
If r(x) ≡ 1, then the quotient space is also called the mapping torus of (X, f).
Suspension, in canon law, according to Roman Catholic doctrine and practice, is usually defined as a censure or punishment, by which a priest or cleric is deprived, entirely or partially, of the use of the power of orders, office, or benefice.
When a suspension is total, a cleric is deprived of the exercise of every function and of every ecclesiastical rite, and can also be temporarily deprived of Communion. The principal grounds on which suspension is incurred in the present discipline of the Church are found in the Decrees of the Council of Trent.
Usage examples of "suspension".
On the other hand, a girder imposes only a vertical load on its piers and abutments, and not a horizontal thrust, as in the case of an arch or suspension chain.
Brunei constructed the towers and abutments for a suspension bridge of 702 ft.
Two main towers in the river and two towers on the shore abutments carry the suspension chains.
Several state constitutions contain provisions authorizing suspension from office in such a case.
Nemes, Scylla, and Briareus regard the Shrike across the expanse of the suspension bridge, not phase-shifting for a moment, appreciating the realtime view of their enemy.
First we sedate, using conventional cryogenic gasses, but then we flush it all out using a high-density energy plasma that is slightly altered Flux energy, and that stuff maintains the suspension for a sufficient time to digitize the subject.
There was a report of a guard under suspension, accused of smuggling a case of Downer wine into Q.
The offender conceded the validity of the rationing order in support of which the suspension order was issued, but challenged the validity of the latter as imposing a penalty that Congress has not enacted, and asked the district court to enjoin it.
Peebles mentions a case of suspension of the functions of the kidneys more than once for five weeks, the patient exhibiting neither coma, stupor, nor vomiting.
Paul would put his share in a fund for his children but Hidey and Eli would need theirs to sustain themselves during their two-year suspension.
Life suspension had been expressly forbidden, but the compulsion to deanimate was so powerful in the reception area that even the Inheritor Major himself was partially under its sway.
College Avenue and north on College to Central Avenue crossing the Cascadilla Creek, and downhill to West Avenue and to the suspension bridge above Fall Creek, eastward then to frozen Lake Beebe, along the icy-reedthick shore of Lake Beebe where at dawn juncos and chickadees pierced the air with their sharp, inquisitive cries and he recalled the wild birds at the feeders of High Point Farm, waking to those identical cries, the mysterious speech of birds mixed with his childhood sleep.
During the sitting of parliament mutinies broke out in the fleet, which gave far greater alarm than the suspension of cash payments by the Bank.
The senator from Rhode Island had correctly estimated the probably action of the House, for although on three different occasions attempts were made to pass the bill under a suspension of the rules, the Democratic members, who numbered more than one-third of the House, voted solidly in the negative, and thus defeated the measure.
Now to utter these impious words on the road to Sacche was mere waste of breath, seeing that he addressed them not to God, but to the Archbishop of Tours, who have once severely rebuked him, threatened him with suspension, and admonished him before the Chapter for having publicly told certain lazy people that a good harvest was not due to the grace of God, but to skilled labour and hard work--a doctrine which smelt of the fagot.