Support

Support may refer to:

Business and finance

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

Mathematics

Mathematics (generally)

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

Psychology

Science and technology
gollark: Or, well, a lot.
gollark: It might help if the majority of the budget was in fact spent on sports.
gollark: According to random internet articles per-person spending is twice as large as in basically every other country ever still.
gollark: I think a more plausible explanation is along the lines that there's a lot of indirection - people don't *directly* pay the full very large price - and, due to other things (devaluing of the degrees, making *not* having one a stronger signal of problematicness somehow, and bizarre "prestige" factors), many people can't really just go "hmm, no, I don't want to pay that much" so they go up.
gollark: It says something like 40% don't actually bill students, too...
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