Associations to the word «Suppressor»

Wiktionary

SUPPRESSOR, noun. A device which suppresses something, especially an electronic or mechanical device.
SUPPRESSOR, noun. Part of the barrel of a firearm which reduces the noise and flash generated by firing the weapon.
SUPPRESSOR, noun. A person who suppresses others, a tyrant.
SUPPRESSOR, noun. A gene that suppresses the effect of another through epistasis.

Dictionary definition

SUPPRESSOR, noun. Someone who suppresses; "dictators are suppressors of free speech".
SUPPRESSOR, noun. A gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene).
SUPPRESSOR, noun. An electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents.

Wise words

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.