LekhoriLekhoriThe act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
suspension from a hook
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.
The 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.
Borrowed from Late Latin suspensiōnem (“arching, vaulting; suspension”), from suspendēre (“to hang up, to suspend”), from sub- (“under”) + pendere (“to hang, to suspend”), from Proto-Italic *pendō (“t...
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