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Mounting vs Suspension - What's the difference?

mounting | suspension |

As nouns the difference between mounting and suspension

is that mounting is something mounted; an attachment while suspension is the act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.

As an adjective mounting

is that continues to mount; steadily accumulating.

As a verb mounting

is present participle of lang=en.

mounting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • that continues to mount; steadily accumulating.
    • mounting debts

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something mounted; an attachment.
  • The act of one who mounts.
  • * 1834 , John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales
    • The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.

    suspension

    English

    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.

    • Synonyms

    * delay, interruption, intermission, stop

    Derived terms

    * *

    Related terms

    * pleas in suspension * points of suspension * suspension bridge * suspension of arms * suspension scale