Look up support in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Support may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
edit- Supporting character
- Support (art), a solid surface upon which a painting is executed
Business and finance
editConstruction
edit- Support (structure), or lateral support, a type of structural support to help prevent sideways movement
- Structural support, architectural components that include arches, beams, columns, balconies, and stretchers
Law and politics
edit- Advocacy, in politics, support for constituencies, issues, or legislation
- Lateral and subjacent support, a legal term
Mathematics
editMathematics (generally)
edit- Support (mathematics), subset of the domain of a function where it is non-zero valued
- Support (measure theory), a subset of a measurable space
- Supporting hyperplane, sometimes referred to as support
- Support of a module, a set of prime ideals in commutative algebra
Statistics
edit- Support, the natural logarithm of the likelihood ratio, as used in phylogenetics
- Method of support, in statistics, a technique that is used to make inferences from datasets
- Support of a distribution where the probability or probability density is positive
Military
editPsychology
editScience and technology
edit- Catalyst support, in chemistry and materials science
- Life support, in medicine
- Technical support, help for computer hardware, software, or electronic goods