Usually means: Temporary halt of usual operations.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. suspension: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. suspension, suspension: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. suspension: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. suspension: Collins English Dictionary
  5. suspension: Vocabulary.com
  6. Suspension, suspension: Wordnik
  7. suspension: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. suspension: Wiktionary
  9. suspension: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. suspension: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. suspension: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. suspension: Dictionary.com
  13. suspension: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. suspension: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Suspension (body modification), Suspension (canonical penalty), Suspension (chemistry), Suspension (disambiguation), Suspension (dynamical systems), Suspension (film), Suspension (mathematics), Suspension (mechanics), Suspension (motorcycle), Suspension (music), Suspension (punishment), Suspension (topology), Suspension (vehicle), Suspension: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Suspension: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. suspension: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. suspension: Rhymezone
  19. Suspension, suspensin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. suspension: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. suspension: Free Dictionary
  22. suspension: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. suspension: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. suspension: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. suspension: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Suspension (civil engineering), Suspension (vehicle), suspension: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Health insurance (No longer online)
  4. Suspension (chemistry), suspension: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  2. SUSPENSION: Masonic Dictionary

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Suspension: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  3. Suspension: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Suspension: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  5. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  6. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  7. suspension, suspension: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  8. Geography Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suspension: The Folk File

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Handball-Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Suspension: Bicycle Glossary
  4. Suspension: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
noun:  A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
noun:  (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.
noun:  Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
noun:  The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
noun:  The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
noun:  (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
noun:  (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.
noun:  (Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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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