How to pronounce “suspension”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
• A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
• (chemistry, physics) The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
• Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
• The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
• The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
• (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
• (music) 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.
• (Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
• (topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
• (topology) 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.
• (vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.

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