Suspension or suspended may refer to:
Science and engineering
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Car suspension
Suspension is the system of tires, tire air, spring (device), springs, shock absorbers and Linkage (mechanical), linkages that connects a vehicle to its wheels and allows relative motion between the two. Suspension systems must support b ...
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Cell suspension or suspension culture, in biology
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Guarded suspension, a software design pattern in concurrent programming suspending a method call and the calling thread until a precondition (guard) is satisfied
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Magnetic suspension, a method by which an object is suspended with no support other than magnetic fields
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Suspension (topology), in mathematics
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Suspension (dynamical systems), in mathematics
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Suspension of a ring, in mathematics
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Suspension (chemistry)
In chemistry, a suspension is a heterogeneous mixture of a fluid that contains solid particles sufficiently large for sedimentation. The particles may be visible to the naked eye, usually must be larger than one micrometer, and will eventua ...
, small solid particles suspended in a liquid
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Colloidal suspension
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Suspension (mechanics)
In mechanics, suspension is a system of components allowing a machine (normally a vehicle) to move smoothly with reduced shock.
Types may include:
* car suspension, four-wheeled motor vehicle suspension
* motorcycle suspension, two-wheeled moto ...
, system allowing a machine to move smoothly with reduced shock
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Suspensory behavior, arboreal locomotion of primates
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Suspend to disk, also known as hibernation, powering down a computer while retaining its state.
* The superstructure of a
suspension bridge
A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck (bridge), deck is hung below suspension wire rope, cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridg ...
Temporary revocation of privileges
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Suspension (punishment), temporary exclusion as a punishment
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Suspension from the UK parliament
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Suspension (Catholic canonical penalty)
Suspension () in Catholic canon law is a Censure (Catholic canon law), censure or punishment, by which a Priesthood (Catholic Church), priest or cleric is deprived, entirely or partially, of the use of the right to Holy orders in the Catholic Chu ...
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Suspension of driving privileges ("suspended driver's license")
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Administrative License Suspension License suspension or revocation traditionally follows conviction for alcohol-impaired or drunk driving. However, under administrative license suspension (ALS) laws, sometimes called administrative license revocation or administrative per se, licens ...
(ALS), US, driving license suspension without a court hearing
Entertainment
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Suspension (music)
A nonchord tone (NCT), nonharmonic tone, or embellishing tone is a note in a piece of music or song that is not part of the implied or expressed chord set out by the harmonic framework. In contrast, a chord tone is a note that is a part of th ...
, one or more notes temporarily held before resolving to a chord tone
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''Suspension'' (2007 film), a film directed by Alec Joler and Ethan Shaftel
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Suspension (2015 film), a Canadian slasher film
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''Suspended'' (film), 1987 Polish film
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''Suspended'' (video game) (1983), an interactive fiction video game
* "Suspension", a song by Lights from
''Siberia'', 2011
Literature
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Suspension of disbelief
Suspension of disbelief is the avoidance—often described as willing—of critical thinking and logic in understanding something that is unreal or impossible in reality, such as something in a work of speculative fiction, in order to believe i ...
, the intentional avoidance of critical thinking or logic in examining a work of fiction
Eroticism
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Suspension bondage
Suspension bondage is a form of sexual bondage where a bound person is hung from one or more overhead suspension points. It carries a higher risk than other forms of sexual bondage.
Stimulation
In ''partial suspension'', the person is bound ...
, the act of suspending a human body using suspension ropes, cables, or chains
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Suspension (body modification)
Body suspension is the act of rigging a human body to hang from implements that have been placed through temporary perforations in the skin.
A number of health concerns might be associated with the practice, such as excessive bleeding, Syncope (m ...
, the act of suspending a human body from hooks that have been put through body piercings
See also
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Caffè sospeso
A , ; in Neapolitan ) or pending coffee is a cup of coffee paid for in advance as an anonymous act of charity. The tradition began in the working-class cafés of Naples, where someone who had experienced good luck would order a ''sospeso'', payi ...
(Italian for "suspended coffee")
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Lock (computer science)
In computer science, a lock or mutex (from mutual exclusion) is a synchronization primitive that prevents state from being modified or accessed by multiple threads of execution at once. Locks enforce mutual exclusion concurrency control policies ...
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Suspend and resume (disambiguation)
Suspend and resume may refer to:
* Coroutines, computer program components that generalize subroutines for cooperative multitasking, by allowing execution to be suspended and resumed
* Hibernation (computing) or Suspend to disk, powering down a com ...
* Suspension, a form of
scribal abbreviation
Scribal abbreviations, or sigla (grammatical number, singular: siglum), are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek language, Greek, Old English and Old Norse.
In modern Textua ...
in medieval manuscripts
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Suspended animation
Suspended animation is the slowing or stopping of biological function so that physiological capabilities are preserved. States of suspended animation are common in micro-organisms and some plant tissue, such as seeds. Many animals, including l ...
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Suspended meal
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