Interdictionnoun
the act of interdicting or something interdicted
Interdictionnoun
the destruction of an enemy's military potential before it can be used
Interdictionnoun
The act of interdicting; prohibition; prohibiting decree; curse; interdict.
Interdictionnoun
authoritative prohibition
Interdictionnoun
a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity
Interdiction
Interdiction is a military term for the act of delaying, disrupting, or destroying enemy forces or supplies en route to the battle area. A distinction is often made between strategical and tactical interdiction.
Suspensionnoun
The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
Suspensionnoun
A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
Suspensionnoun
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.
Suspensionnoun
The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
Suspensionnoun
The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
Suspensionnoun
(education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
Suspensionnoun
(music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
Suspensionnoun
A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
Suspensionnoun
(topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
Suspensionnoun
(topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function's domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function's.
Suspensionnoun
(vehicle) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
Suspensionnoun
The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
Suspensionnoun
Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation
Suspensionnoun
A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.
Suspensionnoun
The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state.
Suspensionnoun
A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed.
Suspensionnoun
A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
Suspensionnoun
The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation.
Suspensionnoun
a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy
Suspensionnoun
a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
Suspensionnoun
temporary cessation or suspension
Suspensionnoun
an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
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a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle
Suspensionnoun
the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely);
Suspensionnoun
a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc)