(accounting) An account in which receipts or disbursements are temporarily entered until their proper position in the books is determined.

plural of suspense account

plural of air suspension

People's acceptance, for the sake of appreciation of art (including literature and the like), of what they know to be a nonfactual premise of the work of art.

plural of suspension bridge

Synonym of condition precedent

A scale in which the platform hangs suspended from the weighing apparatus instead of resting upon it.

Synonym of suspension trauma

Fainting as a result of the body being held upright without any movement for a period of time, with the risk of death from cerebral hypoxia.

(typography) Synonym of ellipsis