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postponement
A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.
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  1. A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.
deferment
A deferring or being deferred; postponement
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  1. A deferring or being deferred; postponement
  2. Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.
  3. The act or an instance of delaying or putting off.
stay
Anything used as a support, or prop
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  1. Anything used as a support, or prop
  2. (Informal) Ability to continue or endure
  3. A stop, halt, check, or pause
halt
(Dated) Lameness; a limp.
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  1. (Dated) Lameness; a limp.
  2. A command to stop
  3. A suspension of movement or progress, especially a temporary one:
stoppage
A pause or halt of some activity.
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  1. A pause or halt of some activity.
  2. The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped; a halt:
  3. A stopping or being stopped
abeyance
(Law) A state of not having been determined or settled, as of lands the present ownership of which has not been established
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  1. (Law) A state of not having been determined or settled, as of lands the present ownership of which has not been established
  2. The status of real property or of a position or title when its ownership or occupancy is not vested in any existing person or party.
  3. The condition of being temporarily set aside; suspension:
dormancy
The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.
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  1. The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.
intermission
An interval between periods of activity, as between the acts of a play.
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  1. An interval between periods of activity, as between the acts of a play.
  2. An interval of time between periods of activity; extended pause, as between acts of a play
  3. An intermitting or being intermitted; interruption
latency
The state or quality of being latent.
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  1. The state or quality of being latent.
  2. The time interval between initiating a query, transmission, or process, and receiving or detecting the results, often given as an average value over a large number of events.
  3. (Psychology) The latency period.
quiescence
(Microbiology) When a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.
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  1. (Microbiology) When a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.
  2. The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state.
  3. Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.
break
Break dancing.
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  1. Break dancing.
  2. An escape:
  3. The result of breaking, as a crack, separation, or opening:
discontinuance
(Law) The plaintiff's failure to proceed in a legal action.
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  1. (Law) The plaintiff's failure to proceed in a legal action.
  2. A stopping or being stopped; cessation or interruption
  3. (Law) The stopping of a legal action prior to trial, either voluntarily by the plaintiff or by order of the court
discontinuation
Discontinuance
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  1. Discontinuance
  2. A cessation; a discontinuance.
  3. Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.
discontinuity
A usually uneven surface between two layers of rock or sediment that represents either an interruption in the deposition of the layers, as in an unconformity, or a displacement of one or both layers relative to each other, as in a fault.
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  1. A usually uneven surface between two layers of rock or sediment that represents either an interruption in the deposition of the layers, as in an unconformity, or a displacement of one or both layers relative to each other, as in a fault.
  2. (Geology) a subterranean interface at which seismic velocities change
  3. A break or gap.
interruption
An interrupting or being interrupted
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  1. An interrupting or being interrupted
  2. Anything that interrupts
  3. The interval during which something is interrupted; intermission
pause
A break, stop, or rest, often for a calculated purpose or effect:
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  1. A break, stop, or rest, often for a calculated purpose or effect:
  2. A stop or break in speaking or reading, which clarifies meaning
  3. (Prosody) A rhythm break or caesura
adjournment
An adjourning or being adjourned
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  1. An adjourning or being adjourned
  2. The time of being adjourned
deferment
A deferring or being deferred; postponement
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  1. A deferring or being deferred; postponement
  2. Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.
  3. The act or an instance of delaying or putting off.
delay
The condition of being delayed; detainment.
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  1. The condition of being delayed; detainment.
  2. The act of delaying; postponement:
  3. The period of time for which something is delayed
postponement
A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.
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  1. A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.
stay
Anything used as a support, or prop
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  1. Anything used as a support, or prop
  2. (Informal) Ability to continue or endure
  3. A stop, halt, check, or pause
waiver
Permission for a professional athletic club to assign a player to the minor leagues or release a player from the club, granted only after all other clubs have been given the opportunity to claim the player and have not done so.
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  1. Permission for a professional athletic club to assign a player to the minor leagues or release a player from the club, granted only after all other clubs have been given the opportunity to claim the player and have not done so.
  2. A voluntary relinquishing of a right or privilege. Although a waiver may result from an explicit surrender or by circumstances, courts frown on accepting waivers of constitutional rights. The party waiving a right must have knowledge of that right and the informed intention of surrendering it.
  3. Something that releases a person from a requirement.
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  • It lies on the Eger, which is spanned here by a suspension bridge, 210 ft.

  • The Weser is here crossed by an iron suspension bridge 830 ft.

  • juice which holds them in suspension or solution.

  • A bifilar suspension is sometimes used instead of a single wire.

  • A suspension of hostilities then took place, and negotiations were opened between the contending parties.

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