Suppression

Suppression may refer to:

• Censorship, the suppression of public communication considered objectionable to the general body of people as determined by a government or media outlet

• Suppression order a type of censorship where a court rules that certain information cannot be published

• Oppression, the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner, also an act or instance of oppressing
• 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
• Suppression of evidence, the act of preventing evidence from being shown in a trial
• Thought suppression, the process of deliberately trying to stop thinking about certain thoughts, associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Voter suppression, a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote

Weapons

• Suppressive fire, weapons fire that degrades the performance of a target below the level needed to fulfill its mission
• 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

Math, science, and technology

• Compton suppression, in nuclear physics
• Electromagnetic interference suppression, e.g., of electrical noise from switches and motors
• Free energy suppression and other suppressed technology
• Silence suppression, in telephony
• Suppression subtractive hybridization, in biochemistry
• Transient-voltage-suppression diode, an electronic component used to protect sensitive electronics from voltage spikes induced on connected wires
• Zero suppression, in math and information theory

Health and medicine

• Appetite suppression
• Bone marrow suppression, the decrease in cells responsible for providing immunity, carrying oxygen, and those responsible for normal blood clotting
• Cough medicine, which may contain a cough suppressant, a medicinal drug used in an attempt to treat coughing
• Flash suppression, a phenomenon of visual perception in which an image presented to one eye is suppressed by a flash of another image presented to the other eye
• Reflux suppressant, in medicine
• Suppression (eye), of an eye is a subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia
• Thought suppression

Religion

• Suppression (parish), the forced closure of a Catholic parish or association
• Suppressive Person and the book, The Cause of Suppression, about the Church of Scientology concept

Other

• Fire suppression system
• Firefighting, involves the suppression of fire
• Suppressed correlative, a logical fallacy
• Suppression of Communism Act
• Tohunga Suppression Act 1907, an Act of the Parliament of New Zealand aimed to replace tohunga as traditional Māori healers with "modern" medicine