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)
“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)
“A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)