supports

Noun

support (countable and uncountable, plural supports)

1. (attributive, sometimes) Something which supports.
   • Don't move that beam! It's a support for the whole platform.

   Synonyms:

   sustentation

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. in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero; the closure of that set.

   Antonyms:

   kernel

5. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).
   • If the membership function of a fuzzy set is continuous, then that fuzzy set's support is an open set.
6. (commutative algebra) The set of all prime ideals of R such that the localization of M at the prime is nonzero, denoted operatorname SuppM

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