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 (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