Dictionary Definition
suppressant n : a drug that suppresses appetite
[syn: appetite
suppressant]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
suppressant- A substance that suppresses.
Extensive Definition
The term Suppression may refer to:
- Oppression
- Censorship
- Voter suppression
- Cultural suppression
- Suppression of religion
- Political suppression
- Thought suppression, the process of deliberately trying to stop thinking about certain thoughts
Weapons
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
- Zero suppression, in math and information theory
Health and medicine
- Appetite suppression
- Bone marrow suppression
- Suppression (eye)
- Flash suppression
- Reflux suppressant, in medicine
Other
- Fire fighting ("fire suppression")
- Fire suppression systems
- Suppressed correlative, a logical fallacy
- Suppression of the Society of Jesus
- Tohunga Suppression Act 1907
- Suppression of Communism Act
- Suppressive Person and the book, The Cause of Suppression, about the Church of Scientology concept