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.

Noun

(en-noun)

(uncountable) The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.

There's a lot of storage space in the loft.

(usually, uncountable) An object or place in which something is stored.

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 1, author=Staff writers, title=Fires rage as business counts cost, work= citation

, passage=Melbourne's water storages plunged by 0.7 per cent in a week, down to 33.1 per cent capacity, as Victoria recorded its second-driest January on record.}}

* 2011 (2008), Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press (translator), Advanced Well Completion Engineering , page 115,

Underground natural gas storages' are underground facilities for storing natural gas. At present, there are three types of underground natural gas '''storages''' worldwide, which include depleted oil and gas reservoir gas '''storages''', salt-cave gas '''storages''' and aquifer ' storages .

* 2012 , A. Grinham, B. Gibbes, D. Gale, M. Watkinson, M. Bartow (University of Queensland), Extreme rainfall and drinking water quality: a regional perspective'', C. A. Brebbia, ''Water Pollution XI , page 187,

Low impact storages' included the northern and southern region?s Cooloolabin Dam, Baroon Pocket Dam, Leslie Harrison Dam, Hinze Dam and Little Nerang Dam. Highly impacted '''storages''' included central region?s Wivenhoe Dam, Somerset Dam and North Pine Dam (Fig. 2), where TSS concentrations in these central '''storages''' where(sic) more than double compared to northern and southern ' storages (Fig. 2A).

(usually, uncountable, computing) Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than memory.

I?d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.

* 2007 , Ramesh Bangia, Computer Fundamentals and Information Technology , Firewall Media, India, page 43,

Secondary storages are used to store system programs (viz; operating system, assembler, interpreter, compiler and so on), data files, software packages and so on.

(uncountable) The price charged for storing goods.