support
/səˈpoɹt/ noun A2- Something which supports. · Don't move that beam! It's a support for the whole platform.
- Financial or other help. · The government provides support to the arts in several ways.
- Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold. · Sure they sell the product, but do they provide support?
- the set of points where the function is not zero; the closure of that set.
- 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.
- The set of all prime ideals of R such that the localization of M at the prime is nonzero, denoted operatorname SuppM
- Evidence. · The new research provides further support for our theory.
- Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature. · This game has no mouse support.
Plural supports
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Dantès approached the upper rock, which now, without any support, leaned towards the sea.
Without having been in the school of the Abbé Faria, the worthy master of La Jeune Amélie (the name of the Genoese tartan) knew a smattering of all the tongues spoken on the shores of that large lake called the Mediterranean, from the Arabic to the Provençal, and this, while it spared him interpreters, persons always troublesome and frequently indiscreet, gave him great facilities of communication, either with the vessels he met at sea, with the small boats sailing along the coast, or with the people without name, country, or occupation, who are always seen on the quays of seaports, and who live by hidden and mysterious means which we must suppose to be a direct gift of Providence, as they have no visible means of support.
Go into my cell as quickly as you can; draw out one of the feet that support the bed; you will find it has been hollowed out for the purpose of containing a small phial you will see there half-filled with a red-looking fluid.
Now lift me on my bed, for I can no longer support myself.”
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