Noun

Singular support

Plural supports

support (plural supports)

1. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.

   Don’t move that beam! It’s a support for the whole platform.

   Don’t move that beam! It’s a support beam.

2. Financial or other help.

   The government provides support to the arts in several ways.

3. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.

   Sure they sell the product, but do they provide support?

4. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set.

Derived terms

• moral support
• combat support (military)

Support may refer to the following:

• Sympathy, emotional support;
• Support wiki (contextual implementation of knowledge management using wiki software)
• Technical support (a.k.a tech support) - in computer hardware, software or electronic goods;
• Support (mathematics), subset of the domain of a function where it is non-zero valued;
• Support (measure theory), a subset of a measurable space;
• Support (statistics), the logarithm of a likelihood function
• Method of support; in statistics, "support" is the logarithm of the likelihood;
• Support (mobile framework), in mobile computing;
• Support (technical analysis), in security trading;
• Military combat support (see combat engineers, anti-tank, artillery); see also Fire Support
• Military service support (see combat medic, military intelligence, military logistics);
• Supports in architecture include arch, beam (structure), column, balcony, stretcher
• Political Advocacy
• Fan Clubs (Sociology) (Mentors, art appreciators, artist appreciators.)