sup

1. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.Antonyms: sdownnot-comparable

1. (informal) Superintendent.Examples: "They had put in the stretch-out and they were laying people off and there was talk of a union. "Let's have a union." "Mr. Shaw won't stand for it. The sup won't stand for it.""; "Cpl. Perez, the radio sup said, "Everything checks out OK, Sarge. We're up and working.""; "But here comes the deputy vehicle, cruising right up to the shelter on the bike path. The sup is a retired county sheriff's deputy."informal

1. (mathematics) Supremum, upper limit.Examples: "Values for the sup W statistic in excess of the 5 percent critical value (2.75 for booms and 2.77 for slumps) indicate rejection of the null hypothesis of no change in the dureation of booms and slumps in real commodity prices."; "For a wide class of connected open sets U, not necessarily simply connected, one proves the existence of a harmonic function on U having given boundary value (satisfying suitable integrability conditions) by taking the sup of the subharmonic functions having this boundary value."

1. (bodybuilding, colloquial) Supplement.colloquial

1. (Cambridge University slang) A supervision.