SUSPENSION
\səspˈɛnʃən], \səspˈɛnʃən], \s_ə_s_p_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of SUSPENSION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
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a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc)
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a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle
By Princeton University
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a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
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a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc)
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a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation
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Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced.
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Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank.
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Of punishment, or sentence of punishment.
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Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman.
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Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act.
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A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
By Oddity Software
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The act of hanging from a support, or of stopping, delaying, or interrupting for a time; state of being hung, delayed, etc., especially, a brief stop, delay, or interruption; a stopping of payments in business; a floating, as of particles, in a fluid.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Act of suspending: interruption: delay: temporary privation of office or privilege: a conditional withholding.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Suspending, sustaining. In pharmacy, a term applied to solutions in which the substance dissolved remains in particulate form, capable of settling out as a sediment. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Act of suspending or of hanging or attaching to something above ;-state of dependence;-act of delaying; temporary cessation ;-act of withholding the judgment; forbearance of decision;-hence, postponing of a sentence or execution;-a prevention or interruption of action or operation;-hence, a temporary deprivation of office or official powers and privileges ;-in rhetoric, a keeping back of the sense or most important point to excite interest and curiosity ; - in chemistry, state of solid particles of matter floating or held undissolved in water.
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