Suspension

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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

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

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
"Suspension", a song by Lights from Siberia, 2011

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

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