SUSPENDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suspended mean? 

• SUSPENDED (adjective)
  The adjective SUSPENDED has 1 sense:

1. (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment

  Familiarity information: SUSPENDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUSPENDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment

Context example:

droplets in suspension in a gas

Similar:

supported (held up or having the weight borne especially from below)

 Context examples 

Agnes had listened at first with suspended breath.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This bone is located at the base of the tongue and is suspended from the tips of the styloid processes of the temporal bones by the stylohyoid ligaments.

(Hyoid Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

Mrs. Reed looked up from her work; her eye settled on mine, her fingers at the same time suspended their nimble movements.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Every hope, every expectation from him suspended, at least, and who could say how long?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the purpose of examination.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Anne was considering whether she should venture to suggest that a gown, or a cap, would not be liable to any such misuse, when a knock at the door suspended everything.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A technique for counting, examining or sorting microscopic particles suspended in a stream of fluid based on tagging the population of interest with antibody-based reagents.

(Immunological Flow Cytometry, NCI Thesaurus)

Holding him suspended with one hand, with the other hand he proceeded to give him a beating.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Why, the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A gel may contain suspended particles.

(Gel Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)