Phrase Hound found 15 phrases and 8 compound words that contain suspension. The most common are listed below. Open suspension in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 15
- suspension bridgeA bridge whose deck or roadway is suspended from wire ropes (cables) or (for some pedestrian bridges) fibrous rope.
- suspension of disbeliefThe acceptance of people, for the sake of appreciation of art (including literature and the like), of what they know to be a nonfactual premise of the work of art.
- Rear suspension
- air suspensionVehicle suspension in which compressed air is used as a spring.
- suspension pointsSynonym of ellipsis: A mark consisting of multiple full stops (with or without spaces), used to indicate omitted, missing, or illegible words; or (in mathematics) that a pattern continues.
- suspension bridgesplural of suspension bridge: A bridge whose deck or roadway is suspended from wire ropes (cables) or (for some pedestrian bridges) fibrous rope.
- suspension traumaFainting as a result of the body being held upright without any movement for a period of time, with the risk of death from cerebral hypoxia.
- suspension dotsSynonym of ellipsis: A mark consisting of multiple full stops (with or without spaces), used to indicate omitted, missing, or illegible words; or (in mathematics) that a pattern continues.
- in-school suspensionA disciplinary method where a suspended student must attend school but is confined to an alternative setting to complete assigned work instead of attending regular classes.
- out-of-school suspensionA disciplinary measure in which a student is prohibited from attending school or accessing campus facilities for a specified duration.
- suspension scaleA scale in which the platform hangs suspended from the weighing apparatus instead of resting upon it.
- suspension syndromeSynonym of suspension trauma: Fainting as a result of the body being held upright without any movement for a period of time, with the risk of death from cerebral hypoxia.
- suicide suspensionThe act of suspending a person upright by means of hooks placed in the flesh of the upper back.
- suspension scalesplural of suspension scale: A scale in which the platform hangs suspended from the weighing apparatus instead of resting upon it.
- willing suspension of disbeliefA suspension of disbelief.
Compound words 8
- colposuspensionThe use of sutures to support the neck of the bladder in order to reduce stress incontinence in women
- nanosuspensionA suspension of nanoparticles
- presuspensionPrior to somebody being suspended (as from work or school).
- suspensionlessWithout mechanical suspension.
- biosuspensionSuspension of particulate matter by biological activity.
- cryosuspensionsuspended animation by means of cryonics
- microsuspensionA suspension of microparticles
- unsuspensionThe act of unsuspending something.