SUSPENSION

Suspension

Suspension is the term given to the system of springs, shock absorbers and linkages that connects a vehicle to its wheels and allows relative motion between the two. Suspension systems serve a dual purpose — contributing to the vehicle's roadholding/handling and braking for good active safety and driving pleasure, and keeping vehicle occupants comfortable and reasonably well isolated from road noise, bumps, and vibrations,etc. These goals are generally at odds, so the tuning of suspensions involves finding the right compromise. It is important for the suspension to keep the road wheel in contact with the road surface as much as possible, because all the road or ...

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suspension

Noun

  1. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
  2. A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
  3. 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.
  4. The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
  5. 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.
  6. A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.


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