Suppression may refer to:

Laws

Suppression of Communism Act The Suppression of Communism Act, 1950 (Act No. 44 of 1950), renamed the Internal Security Act in 1976, was legislation of the national government in apartheid South Africa which formally banned the Communist Party of South Africa and proscribed ...

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

Tohunga Suppression Act 1907 The Tohunga Suppression Act 1907 was an Act of the New Zealand Parliament aimed at replacing tohunga as traditional Māori healers with western medicine. It was introduced by James Carroll who expressed impatience with what he considered regr ...

, an Act of the Parliament of New Zealand aimed to replace tohunga as traditional Māori healers with "modern" medicine

Mathematics and science

Biology, psychology and healthcare

Suppression (eye) Suppression 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. The brain can eliminate double vision by ignoring all o ...

, 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 *

Appetite suppression An anorectic or anorexic is a drug which reduces appetite, resulting in lower food consumption, leading to weight loss. By contrast, an appetite stimulant is referred to as orexigenic. The term is (from the Greek ''ἀν-'' (an-) = "without" and ...

Bone marrow suppression Bone marrow suppression also known as myelotoxicity or myelosuppression, is the decrease in production of cells responsible for providing immunity (leukocytes), carrying oxygen (erythrocytes), and/or those responsible for normal blood clotting (t ...

, the decrease in cells responsible for providing immunity, carrying oxygen, and those responsible for normal blood clotting *

Cough medicine Cold medicines are a group of medications taken individually or in combination as a treatment for the symptoms of the common cold and similar conditions of the upper respiratory tract. The term encompasses a broad array of drugs, including a ...

, which may contain a cough suppressant, a medicinal drug used in an attempt to treat coughing *

Expressive suppression Expressive suppression is the intentional reduction of the facial expression of an emotion. It is a component of emotion regulation. Expressive suppression is a concept "based on individuals' emotion knowledge, which includes knowledge about the ...

, a psychological aspect of emotion regulation *

Flash suppression Flash suppression is 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. To observe flash suppression, a small image is first presented to one eye for abou ...

, 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 * Genetic suppression *

Reflux suppressant A reflux suppressant is any one of a number of drugs used to combat oesophageal reflux. Commonly, following ingestion a 'raft' of alginic acid is created, floating on the stomach contents by carbon dioxide released by the drug. This forms a mechan ...

, in medicine * Suppression subtractive hybridization, in biochemistry *

Thought suppression Thought suppression is a psychological defence mechanism. It is a type of motivated forgetting in which an individual consciously attempts to stop thinking about a particular thought. It is often associated with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OC ...

, the psychological process of deliberately trying to stop thinking about certain thoughts, associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Other uses in mathematics and science

* Compton suppression, in nuclear physics * Zero suppression, in mathematics and information theory

Politics

Censorship Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Censorship can be conducted by governments ...

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

Suppression of dissent Dissent is an opinion, philosophy or sentiment of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or policy enforced under the authority of a government, political party or other entity or individual. A dissenting person may be referred to ...

, occurs when an individual or group tries to censor, persecute or otherwise oppress the other party rather than communicate logically *

Suppression of evidence Suppression of evidence is a term used in the United States legal system to describe the lawful or unlawful act of preventing evidence from being shown in a trial. This could happen for several reasons. For example, if a judge believes that the e ...

, the act of preventing evidence from being shown in a trial *

Voter suppression Voter suppression is a strategy used to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting. It is distinguished from political campaigning in that campaigning attempts to change likely voting ...

, a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote *

Catch and kill Catch and kill is a surreptitious technique employed by newspapers and media outlets to prevent an individual from publicly revealing information damaging to a third party. Using a legally enforceable non-disclosure agreement, the tabloid purpor ...

, buying exclusive publication rights to an individual's story, and then suppressing the information

Religion

Suppression (parish) In the Catholic Church, a parish ( la, parochia) is a stable community of the faithful within a particular church, whose pastoral care has been entrusted to a parish priest (Latin: ''parochus''), under the authority of the diocesan bishop. It is t ...

, the forced closure of a Catholic parish or association *

Religious intolerance Religious intolerance is Toleration, intolerance of another's religious beliefs or practices or lack thereof. Mere statements which are contrary to one's beliefs do not constitute intolerance. Religious intolerance, rather, occurs when a group ...

, or religious suppression, intolerance against another's religious beliefs or practices by individuals, private groups, government agencies or the whole government *

Suppressive Person Suppressive Person, often abbreviated SP, is a term used in Scientology to describe the "antisocial personalities" who, according to Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard, make up about 2.5% of the population. A statement on a Church of Scientolog ...

, a Church of Scientology concept discussed in the book, ''The Cause of Suppression''

Technology

Electromagnetic interference Electromagnetic interference (EMI), also called radio-frequency interference (RFI) when in the radio frequency spectrum, is a disturbance generated by an external source that affects an electrical circuit by electromagnetic induction, electros ...

suppression, e.g., of electrical noise from switches and motors *

Fire suppression system Fire suppression systems are used to extinguish, control, or in some cases, entirely prevent fires from spreading or occurring. Fire suppression systems have an incredibly large variety of applications, and as such, there are many different types ...

Firefighting Firefighting is the act of extinguishing or preventing the spread of unwanted fires from threatening human lives and destroying property and the environment. A person who engages in firefighting is known as a firefighter. Firefighters typically ...

, involves the suppression of fire *

Free energy suppression Free energy suppression (or new energy suppression) is a conspiracy theory that technologically viable, pollution-free, no-cost energy sources are being suppressed by government, corporations, or advocacy groups. Devices allegedly suppressed inc ...

and other suppressed technology *

Silence suppression The term silence suppression is used in telephony to describe the process of not transmitting information over the network when one of the parties involved in a telephone call is not speaking, thereby reducing bandwidth usage. Voice is carried over ...

, in telephony *

Transient-voltage-suppression diode A transient-voltage-suppression (TVS) diode, also transil or thyrector, is an electronic component used to protect electronics from voltage spikes induced on connected wires. Description The device operates by shunting excess current when the ...

, an electronic component used to protect sensitive electronics from voltage spikes induced on connected wires

Weapons

Suppressive fire In military science, suppressive fire is "fire that degrades the performance of an enemy force below the level needed to fulfill its mission". When used to protect exposed friendly troops advancing on the battlefield, it is commonly called cov ...

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

Suppressor A silencer, also known as a sound suppressor, suppressor, or sound moderator, is a muzzle device that reduces the acoustic intensity Sound intensity, also known as acoustic intensity, is defined as the power carried by sound waves per unit ...

, 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

Other uses

Suppressed correlative The fallacy of suppressed correlative is a type of argument that tries to redefine a correlative (one of two mutually exclusive options) so that one alternative encompasses the other, i.e. making one alternative impossible. This has also been know ...

, a logical fallacy {{disambiguation