Noun

(en noun)

A hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.

* Shakespeare

Thus far into the bowels of the land / Have we marched on without impediment .

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, year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=2 citation , passage=I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.}}

Working in a noisy factory left him with a slight hearing impediment .

(chiefly, in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta

Noun

(en noun)

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.

suspension from a hook

A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.

suspension from school as a disciplinary measure

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.

The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.

The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile or car, which allow the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.

(Scots Law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(education) The process of barring a student from school grounds by means of punishment.