(education) A type of primary and secondary school suspension method in which, for a given period of time, the students being punished are not allowed to go to their regular classes, but are still required to attend school to instead be kept in an alternative setting that usually involves immobility and the performing of school-related activities.

(BDSM) The act of suspending a person upright by means of hooks placed in the flesh of the upper back.

(typography) Synonym of ellipsis

(typography) Synonym of ellipsis

Synonym of suspension trauma

Fainting as a result of the body being held upright without any movement for a period of time, with the risk of death from cerebral hypoxia.

plural of 4-3 suspension

A musical device, commonplace in the Western classical tradition, whereby a suspension is formed through a note a fourth above the bass which resolves to a third.

plural of 9-8 suspension

(music) a suspension that consists of the ninth chord tone that resolves to the eighth (or the one).