Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Adjournment

Adjournment (-ment) , noun

[Compare f. adjournement, Old French ajornement. See Adjourn.]

1.
The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
2.
The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.