https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=SupportSupport - Revision history2026-04-26T17:43:50ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.44.2https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?title=Support&diff=685080&oldid=previmported>Bkonrad: please offer some suggestion as to how a broad concept article for this generic term might be better than simple disambiguation2025-04-14T11:44:06Z<p>please offer some suggestion as to how a broad concept article for this generic term might be better than simple disambiguation</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Hatnote|To support Wikipedia, see [[Wikipedia:Supports]]}}<br />
'''Support''' may refer to:<br />
{{TOC right}}<br />
<br />
== Arts, entertainment, and media ==<br />
* [[Supporting character]]<br />
* [[Support (art)]], a solid surface upon which a painting is executed<br />
<br />
== Business and finance ==<br />
* [[Support (technical analysis)]]<br />
* [[Child support]]<br />
* [[Customer support]]<br />
* [[Income Support]]<br />
<br />
== Construction ==<br />
* [[Support (structure)]], or lateral support, a type of structural support to help prevent sideways movement<br />
* [[Structural support]], architectural components that include arches, beams, columns, balconies, and stretchers<br />
<br />
== Law and politics ==<br />
* [[Advocacy]], in politics, support for constituencies, issues, or legislation<br />
* [[Lateral and subjacent support]], a legal term<br />
<br />
== Mathematics ==<br />
=== Mathematics (generally) ===<br />
* [[Support (mathematics)]], subset of the domain of a function where it is non-zero valued<br />
* [[Support (measure theory)]], a subset of a measurable space<br />
* [[Supporting hyperplane]], sometimes referred to as support<br />
* [[Support of a module]], a set of prime ideals in [[commutative algebra]]<br />
<br />
=== Statistics ===<br />
* Support, the natural logarithm of the [[likelihood function#|likelihood]] ratio, as used in phylogenetics<br />
* [[Method of support]], in statistics, a technique that is used to make inferences from datasets<br />
* [[Support of a distribution]] where the probability or probability density is positive<br />
<br />
== Military ==<br />
* [[Close air support]]<br />
* [[Combat service support]]<br />
* [[Combat support]]<br />
* [[Fire support]]<br />
<br />
== Psychology ==<br />
* [[Emotional support animal]]<br />
* [[Moral support]]<br />
* [[Peer support]]<br />
* [[Social support]]<br />
* [[Support group]]<br />
* [[Sympathy]]<br />
<br />
== Science and technology ==<br />
* [[Catalyst support]], in chemistry and materials science<br />
* [[Life support]], in medicine<br />
* [[Technical support]], help for computer hardware, software, or electronic goods<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
* [[Support vessel (disambiguation)]]<br />
<br />
{{disambiguation}}</div>imported>Bkonrad