Support may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Business and finance

Support (technical analysis) In stock market technical analysis, support and resistance are certain predetermined levels of the price of a security at which it is thought that the price will tend to stop and reverse. These levels are denoted by multiple touches of price wit ...

Child support Child support (or child maintenance) is an ongoing, periodic payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child (or parent, caregiver, guardian) following the end of a marriage or other similar relationship. Child maintenance is paid d ...

* Customer support * Income Support

Construction

* Support (structure), or lateral support, a type of structural support to help prevent sideways movement *

Structural support A structural support is a part of a building or structure that provides the necessary stiffness and strength in order to resist the internal forces (vertical forces of gravity and lateral forces due to wind and earthquakes) and guide them safely to ...

, architectural components that include arches, beams, columns, balconies, and stretchers

Law and politics

Advocacy Advocacy is an Action (philosophy), activity by an individual or advocacy group, group that aims to influence decision making, decisions within political, economic, and social institutions. Advocacy includes activities and publications to infl ...

, in politics, support for constituencies, issues, or legislation *

Lateral and subjacent support Lateral and subjacent support, in the law of property, describes the right a landowner has to have that land physically supported in its natural state by both adjoining land and underground structures. If a neighbor's excavation or excessive extr ...

, a legal term

Mathematics

Mathematics (generally)

* 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 In geometry, a supporting hyperplane of a set S in Euclidean space \mathbb R^n is a hyperplane that has both of the following two properties: * S is entirely contained in one of the two closed half-spaces bounded by the hyperplane, * S has at lea ...

, sometimes referred to as support

Statistics

* Support, the natural logarithm of the likelihood ratio, as used in phylogenetics *

Method of support In statistics, the method of support is a technique that is used to make inferences from datasets. According to A. W. F. Edwards, the method of support aims to make inferences about unknown parameters in terms of the relative support, or log likel ...

, 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

Close air support In military tactics, close air support (CAS) is defined as air action such as air strikes by fixed or rotary-winged aircraft against hostile targets near friendly forces and require detailed integration of each air mission with fire and moveme ...

Combat service support The term combat service support (or CSS) is utilized by numerous military organizations throughout the world to describe entities that provide direct and indirect sustainment services to the groups that engage (or are potentially to be engaged) ...

* Combat support * Fire support

Psychology

* Moral support * Peer support *

Social support Social support is the perception and actuality that one is cared for, has assistance available from other people, and most popularly, that one is part of a supportive social network. These supportive resources can be emotional (e.g., nurturance), ...

Support group In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic. Members with the same issues can come together for sharing coping str ...

* Sympathy

Science and technology

Catalyst support In chemistry, a catalyst support is the material, usually a solid with a high surface area, to which a catalyst is affixed. The activity of heterogeneous catalysts is mainly promoted by atoms present at the accessible surface of the material. Cons ...

, in chemistry and materials science *

Life support Life support comprises the treatments and techniques performed in an emergency in order to support life after the failure of one or more vital organs. Healthcare providers and emergency medical technicians are generally certified to perform basic ...

, in medicine *

Technical support Technical support (abbreviated as tech support) is a call centre type customer service provided by companies to advise and assist registered users with issues concerning their technical products. Traditionally done on the phone, technical suppor ...

, help for computer hardware, software, or electronic goods