Support
# Support

Support may refer to:

## Arts, entertainment, and media

* Supporting character
* Support (art), a solid surface upon which a painting is executed

## Business and finance

* Support (technical analysis)
* Child support
* Customer support
* Income Support

## Construction

* Support (structure), or lateral support, a type of structural support to help prevent sideways movement
* Structural support, architectural components that include arches, beams, columns, balconies, and stretchers

## Law and politics

* Advocacy, in politics, support for constituencies, issues, or legislation
* Lateral and subjacent support, 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, sometimes referred to as support
* Support of a module, a set of prime ideals in commutative algebra

### Statistics

* Support, the natural logarithm of the likelihood ratio, as used in phylogenetics
* Method of support, 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
* Combat service support
* Combat support
* Fire support

## Psychology

* Moral support
* Peer support
* Social support
* Support group
* Sympathy

## Science and technology

* Catalyst support, in chemistry and materials science
* Life support, in medicine
* Technical support, help for computer hardware, software, or electronic goods
