Suspension
# 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

## 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
