title: Suspension
text: # 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
  