<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>the act of suppressing.</li><li>the state of being suppressed.</li><li>Psychoanalysis: conscious inhibition of an impulse.</li><li>Botany: the absence of parts normally or usually present due to the action of frost, disease, or insects.</li><li>Radio, Electronics: the elimination of a component of a varying emission, as the elimination of a frequency or group of frequencies from a signal.</li><li>Electricity: the reduction or elimination of irregular current oscillations or frequencies in a circuit.</li></ul>