0 present participle of suspend --
1 to stop something from being active, either temporarily or permanently: --
He was suspended for four games after arguing with the referee.
Mr Young was given a six-month jail sentence, suspended for two years (= if he commits another crime within two years, he will have to go to prison for six months for his original crime).
I'm suspending judgment (= not forming an opinion) on the book I'm reading until I've finished it.
When you go to the theatre, you have to be willing to suspend disbelief (= to act as if you believe that what you are seeing is real or true, although you know that it is not).
The country's president has suspended the constitution and assumed total power.
The ferry service has been suspended for the day because of bad weather.
2 to hang: --
Similar trends were exhibited for suspending travel at 100 and 50 cases.
The drop to suspending fluid viscosity ratio is arbitrary.
The unstressed cell shape may be modified by altering the tonicity of the suspending fluid.
Increasing viscosity ratio also increases drop deformation since a viscosity contrast across the interface enhances the deforming viscous stresses in the suspending fluid.
Thin layers of suspending fluid develop at the late stages of coalescence of bubbles, drops, and solid particles.
Simulated gaps were created by suspending tree pots within growing frames aligned in a north-south direction.
The drop to suspending fluid viscosity ratio is arbitrary and the drop radius varies from 0.5 to 1.15 tube radii.
It's possible to describe such phenomena by suspending the assumption that the blocks of rules are necessarily applied sequentially.
