Contemporary science is typically subdivided into the natural sciences, which study the material universe; the social sciences, which study people and societies; and the formal sciences, which study logic and mathematics.
Definition of suspend for English Language Learners : to force (someone) to leave a job, position, or place for a usually short period of time as a form of punishment : to stop (something) for a usually short period of time
Definition of suspend. 1  transitive verb. 2  1 : to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function suspend a student from school. 3  2a : to cause to stop temporarily suspend bus serviceb : to set aside or make temporarily inoperative suspend the rules. 4  3 : to defer to a later time on specified conditions suspend sentence.