suppression

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin suppressiō.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /səˈpɹɛʃən/
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

suppression (countable and uncountable, plural suppressions)

  1. The act or instance of suppressing.
    • 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos:
      The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
  2. The state of being suppressed.
  3. (psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
  4. (military) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
    • 1971, Dick Wilson, “Home and Dry in Shensi”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival[1], New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 230:
      In these circumstances the Communist guerrillas had survived Kuomintang suppression and in the autumn of 1931 they had launched a rising in the Huanglung Mountains of north Shensi.
  5. (of an eye) A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin suppressiōnem.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /sy.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃/, /sy.pʁe.sjɔ̃/
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

suppression f (plural suppressions)

  1. deletion
  2. removal
  3. cutting (of jobs)

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