Suspension or suspended may refer to:

Science, mathematics, 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

Law

• Suspended sentence, sentence whose serving is deferred in favour of probation

Entertainment

• Suspension (music), one or more notes temporarily held before resolving to a chord tone

• Suspension (2007 film), a film directed by Alec Joler and Ethan Shaftel

• Suspension (2015 film), a Canadian slasher film

• Suspended (film), 1987 Polish film

• Suspended (video game) (1983), an interactive fiction video game

• "Suspension", a song by Lights from Siberia, 2011

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

See also

• Caffè sospeso (Italian for "suspended coffee")

• Lock (computer science)

• Suspend and resume (disambiguation)

• Suspension, a form of scribal abbreviation in medieval manuscripts

• Suspended animation

• Suspended meal