act of suppressing, repression; stoppage
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Suppression Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.
The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.
(n.)
Omission; as, the suppression of a word.
Omission; as, the suppression of a word.
(n.)
Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutComplete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion.
suppression
\sup*pres"sion\ (?), n. [l. suppressio: cf. f. suppression.]
1. the act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.
2. (med.) complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion.
3. (gram.) omission; as, the suppression of a word.
A forcible putting or keeping down
Noun
1. (botany) the failure to develop of some part or organ of a plant
(hypernym) growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
(classification) botany, phytology
2. the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper"
(synonym) curtailment
(hypernym) restraint
(derivation) restrain, suppress, keep, keep back, hold back
3. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
(synonym) crushing, quelling, stifling
(hypernym) prevention, bar
(hyponym) crackdown
(derivation) suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb
4. (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
(synonym) inhibition
(hypernym) abstinence
(derivation) suppress, repress
(classification) psychology, psychological science
Suppression Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
Temporary or transient degradation by an opposing force of the performance of a weapons system below the level needed to fulfill its mission objectives.
Source: U.S. Department of Defense, Joint Doctrine Division. ( About )Suppression Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
The minimization of undesired side effects in circuit operations (e.g., two tone intermodulation suppression, usually through a design compromise or the addition of specialized components).
Suppression Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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
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Suppression Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
the cessation of detectable viral replication in a person's blood.
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