Suspension

//səˈspɛnʃən//

"Suspension" in a Sentence (19 examples)

The suspension bridge is miles above.

There is a suspension bridge ahead of us.

Traffic was also disrupted including the suspension of the Akita, Tohoku bullet train.

He wrote the article "Interstellar Voyages with Passengers in Cryogenic Suspension."

The law calls for the introduction of a suspension period for journalists who wish to run for office.

A Renault 6 doesn't use coil springs or leaf springs. It uses torsion bars in the suspension.

The student was given a three day suspension.

The students chose to boycott their Political Science class for the rest of the semester in protest of their professor's suspension.

Tom said he's appealing his suspension.

Tom's suspension ended on October 20th.

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suspension from a hook

Fear of dioxin emissions led to suspension of efforts to establish a waste-to-energy plant at the Brooklyn Navy yard.

As the solids clump together, they get heavier causing them to fall out of suspension in the water.

suspension from school as a disciplinary measure

[…] Donna Thomas, John Tiedeman, David Jones, and Richard Williams, all students in the Granville Junior-Senior High School, conceived a plan in November 1978 to produce a satirical publication addressed to the school community. […] [Assistant Principal Frederick] Reed summoned Tiedeman and discussed with him the “dangers” of publishing material that might offend or hurt others. Specifically, he told Tiedeman that a similar publication several years before had culminated in the suspension of the students involved.

As in Sequenza IV, the suspension of the chord creates several different layers of activity, which can be understood by looking at the right hand’s chord in bar two.

To get an intuitive feeling for the characteristics of H'-spaces, it is instructive to consider an important class of such spaces, the suspensions. The suspension of an arbitrary topological space Y is defined to be the quotient space of Y#92;timesI where Y#92;times 0 is identified to one point and Y#92;times 1 is identified to another point. For example, the suspension of a circle is a cylinder with the two ends collapsed into one point each; in other words, a space homeomorphic to a sphere.

A model category is called pointed if the initial object and terminal object are the same. The homotopy category of any pointed model category acquires a suspension functor denoted by #92;Sigma. It turns out that #92;text#123;Ho#125;(M) is a pre-triangulated category in a natural way[…]. When the suspension is an equivalence, M is called a stable model category, and in this case #92;text#123;Ho#125;(M) becomes a triangulated category[…].

If you drive over a speed bump, the left and right tires push the suspension upward at the same time.

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