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Suspension or suspended may refer to:

Science and engineering

• Car suspension
• Cell suspension or suspension culture, in biology
• Guarded suspension, a software design pattern in concurrent programming suspending a method call and the calling thread until a precondition (guard) is satisfied
• Magnetic suspension, a method by which an object is suspended with no support other than magnetic fields
• Suspension (topology), in mathematics
• Suspension (dynamical systems), in mathematics
• Suspension of a ring, in mathematics
• Suspension (chemistry), small solid particles suspended in a liquid
  • Colloidal suspension
• Suspension (mechanics), system allowing a machine to move smoothly with reduced shock
• Suspensory behavior, arboreal locomotion of primates
• Suspend to disk, also known as hibernation, powering down a computer while retaining its state.
• The superstructure of a suspension bridge

Temporary revocation of privileges

• Suspension (punishment), temporary exclusion as a punishment
  • Suspension from the UK parliament
  • Suspension (Catholic canonical penalty)
• Suspension of driving privileges ("suspended driver's license")
• Administrative License Suspension (ALS), US, driving license suspension without a court hearing

Entertainment

• Suspension (music), one or more notes temporarily held before resolving to a chord tone
• Suspension (film), 2007 film directed by Alec Joler and Ethan Shaftel
• Suspended (film), 1987 Polish film
• Suspended (video game) (1983), an interactive fiction video game

Literature

• Suspension of disbelief, the intentional avoidance of critical thinking or logic in examining a work of fiction

Eroticism

• Suspension bondage, the act of suspending a human body using suspension ropes, cables, or chains
• Suspension (body modification), the act of suspending a human body from hooks that have been put through body piercings

See also

• Caffè sospeso (Italian for "suspended coffee")
• Lock (computer science)
• Suspend and resume (disambiguation)
• Suspension, a form of scribal abbreviation in medieval manuscripts
• Suspended animation
• Suspended meal

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