suspension
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
suspension/səˈspenʃn/
▶noun
- 1 the action of suspending or the condition of being suspended.
- 2 the system of springs and shock absorbers by which a vehicle is supported on its wheels.
- 3 a mixture in which particles are dispersed throughout the bulk of a fluid.
- 4 Music a discord made by prolonging a note of a chord into the following chord.
'suspension' also found in these Oxford entries:
abeyance
- aerosol
- anti-roll bar
- arrest
- boneshaker
- ceasefire
- chromatography
- elutriate
- ferrofluid
- gel
- halt
- homogenate
- martial law
- Milk of Magnesia
- precipitate
- running gear
- semen
- smoke
- sol
- stay
- suspend
- suspense
- suspension bridge
- suspensive
- suspensory
- torsion bar
- turbidimeter
- wishbone
