What is "suspensions"

Usage examples of "suspensions".

Direct drive to the rear axles was simple but unreliable, as the necessary long connecting rods and cranked axles often broke, given the erratic forging techniques and rough suspensions of the day.

That was why short-term biostasis revivals tended to be so much less difficult than the long-term ones: not because of the time elapsed, but because the suspensions themselves had usually been performed under much less traumatic conditions.

These can be handled with a few suspensions, a few vanishments, without ending in a war that will kill off half the world’s population!

What with the suspensions and resignations, I don't think I'll be on cold cases much longer.

But the Homicide Division was shorthanded, after three recent suspensions and several resignations, and it was unlikely that Gonzalez would be replaced.

There are also some pending suspensions to investigate, but you'll know how to handle these without any trouble.

There were forgetful women on folding shopper bikes, black youths talking into mobile phones while riding no-handed, claimants on wrecks of racing bikes with the drop handlebars turned upside down so as to make sure their brakes didn't work, serious mountain bikers with front suspensions made from impossibly light alloys found only in crashed asteroids, hip twenty-five-year-olds in big baggy pants twiddling away on chromed BMX bikes (she couldn't even begin to figure out what that one was about) and messengers, messengers, messengers.

Engines and suspensions and transmissions didn't subject you to melodramatic moods or cryptic diatribes and even at the worst they never blamed you for their own failings.

Though she knew how non-rank cops who fought discrimination or suspensions through the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association were unofficially red flagged.

The suspensions that were handed down earlier that morning were mostly forgotten for a few hours.

Improved suspensions were instrumental in raising average speeds, and specialized cars of all types grew in number and complexity.