Suspension
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Suspension or suspended may refer to:
Science, mathematics, 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
 - 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 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 (2007 film), a film directed by Alec Joler and Ethan Shaftel
 - Suspension (2015 film), a Canadian slasher film
 - Suspended (film), 1987 Polish film
 - Suspended (video game) (1983), an interactive fiction video game
 - "Suspension", a song by Lights from Siberia, 2011
 
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