Suspension

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
 * "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