Picture something lifted off the ground and left hanging in mid-air — not dropped, not set back down, just held. 'Suspension' is that state of being held up and held off.
From the word’s history
From Latin suspendere 'to hang up', from sub 'up from under' + pendere 'to hang'. Every branch keeps the literal hanging: an activity hung up in the air, a person's rights hung up, a car body hung on springs, solid bits hung in a liquid.
源自拉丁文 suspendere「吊起來」，由 sub「從下往上」加 pendere「懸掛」組成。四個用法都還留著「吊」這個動作：活動被吊在空中、身分被吊著、車身吊在彈簧上、固體顆粒吊在液體裡。
etymonline.com/word/suspension (Latin suspendere 'to hang up', sub + pendere 'to hang')
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原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
suspensionnoun/səˈspɛnʃən/
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The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
- suspension from a hook
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A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
- Fear of dioxin emissions led to suspension of efforts to establish a waste-to-energy plant at the Brooklyn Navy yard.
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chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesThe state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
- As the solids clump together, they get heavier causing them to fall out of suspension in the water.
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Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
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The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
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The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
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educationThe process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
- 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.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicThe act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
- 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.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
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A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
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mathematicssciencestopologyA topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
- 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.
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mathematicssciencestopologyA function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.
- 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[…].
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transportvehiclesThe system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
- If you drive over a speed bump, the left and right tires push the suspension upward at the same time.
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