SUSPENSION

noun Etymology: Middle English suspensyon, from Anglo-French ~, from Late Latin ~-, suspensio, from Latin suspendere Date: 15th century the act of suspending ; the state or period of being suspended: as, temporary removal (as from office or privileges), temporary withholding (as of belief or decision), temporary abrogation of a law or rule, d. the holding over of one or more musical tones of a chord into the following chord producing a momentary discord and suspending the concord which the ear expects, the tone thus held over, stoppage of payment of business obligations ; failure , a rhetorical device whereby the principal idea is deferred to the end of a sentence or longer unit, 2. the act of hanging ; the state of being hung, b. the state of a substance when its particles are mixed with but undissolved in a fluid or solid, a substance in this state, a system consisting of a solid dispersed in a solid, liquid, or gas usually in particles of larger than colloidal size, something suspended, the means by which something is suspended