Suppression

The term suppression may refer to:

• Oppression, the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner, also an act or instance of oppressing
• Censorship, the suppression of public communication considered objectionable to the general body of people as determined by a government or media outlet
• Voter suppression, a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote
• Cultural suppression, occurs when a culture is suppressed, usually coinciding with the promotion of another culture, often related to cultural imperialism
• Religious intolerance, intolerance against another's religious beliefs or practices by individuals, private groups, government agencies or the whole government
• Suppression of dissent, occurs when an individual or group tries to censor, persecute or otherwise oppress the other party rather than communicate logically
• Thought suppression, the process of deliberately trying to stop thinking about certain thoughts, associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Weapons:

• Suppressor, a device attached to or part of the barrel of a firearm which reduces the amount of noise and flash generated by firing the weapon
• Suppressive fire, weapons fire that degrades the performance of a target below the level needed to fulfill its mission

Math, science, and technology:

• Compton suppression, in nuclear physics
• Free energy suppression and other suppressed technology
• Silence suppression, in telephony
• Suppression subtractive hybridization, in biochemistry
• Transient voltage suppression diode
• Electromagnetic interference suppression, e.g., of electrical noise from switches and motors
• Zero suppression, in math and information theory

Health and medicine:

• Appetite suppression
• Bone marrow suppression
• Cough medicine, which may contain a cough suppressant, a medicinal drug used in an attempt to treat coughing
• Suppression (eye)
• Flash suppression
• Reflux suppressant, in medicine

Religion:

• Suppression of the Society of Jesus, a canonical suppression in the Catholic Church
• Suppressive Person and the book, The Cause of Suppression, about the Church of Scientology concept

Other:

• Fire fighting, involves the suppression of fire
• Fire suppression system
• Suppressed correlative, a logical fallacy
• Tohunga Suppression Act 1907
• Suppression of Communism Act
• Wikipedia Oversighting