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, the forced closure of a parish or association in Canon law (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:Oversight
Famous quotes containing the word suppression:
“... peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“Fashion required the suppression of all naturalness—’to walk upright, with unbending joints; to shake hands after the pump- handle formula; to look inexpressibly indifferent towards everybody and everything; and speak only in a mincing voice was to be a decorous member of society.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)