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reinforcement
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Wiktionary
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alt. 1 (context uncountable English) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced. 2 (context countable English) A thing that reinforces. 3 (context in the plural English) additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action. ...
Wikipedia
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thumb|upright=1.4|Diagram of operant conditioning In behavioral psychology , reinforcement is a consequence that will strengthen an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus . This strengthening effect ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "act of reinforcing," from reinforce + -ment . Meaning "an augmentation, that which reinforces" is from 1650s. Related: Reinforcements .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE negative ▪ The general principle on which response-cost is based, is referred to by psychologists as negative reinforcement . ▪ What are the sources of negative and positive reinforcement people might expect from ...
WordNet
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n. a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission; "they called for artillery support" [syn: support , reenforcement ] information that makes more forcible ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reinforcement \Re`in*force"ment\ (-ment), n. See Re["e]nforcement .
Usage examples of reinforcement.
The army of Ricimer was fortified by a numerous reinforcement of Burgundians and Oriental Suevi: he disclaimed all allegiance to the Greek emperor, marched from Milan to the Gates of Rome, and fixing his camp on the banks of the Anio, impatiently expected the arrival of Olybrius, his Imperial candidate.
Influence on Allied operations is usually increased by large reinforcements.
But the excited Carolinians would not wait, because they feared that the arrival of reinforcements might balk them of their easy prey.
The preface is that General Buller sent word to General White that he proposed to attack upon the 17th, while the actual attack was delivered upon the 15th, so that the garrison was not prepared to make that demonstration which might have prevented the besiegers from sending important reinforcements to Botha, had he needed them.
This brought out a reinforcement, before which the detachment of Horry was compelled to retreat.
Imagawa for even two weeks or a month, we could send messengers to Mino or Kai and ask for reinforcements.
Both maps represent pitch modulo octaves, both have an activation of neurons that persists after the occurrence of the relevant pitch, and both have mutual reinforcement between consonantly related notes and mutual inhibition between notes not consonantly related.
But we in the millennial neurosis situation are surrounded by perpetual, remorseless reinforcement of our grief.
Without heavy guns, without adequate torpedoes, and with no hope of reinforcements from anywhere, these fragile ships must try to harass and heckle and outguess a massive collection of warships and cruisers any one of which had more fire power than what the Americans together could muster.
With that many, fresh and well armed, we can crush Scapula before he has time to call for reinforcements.
While the engineers were employed in demolishing the works, the light horse scoured the country, and detachments were every day sent out towards Walloign, at the distance of four leagues from Cherbourg, where the enemy were encamped, and every hour received reinforcements.
The state of the sensorium is a far more basic determinant of behavior than cultural patterns of reward and punishment because we receive these very reinforcements themselves through the media of the senses.
The Reithrese and Haladin reinforcements, moving slowly with their supply trains and siege engines, hit Sture head-on and stopped.
Red Tiger, having crushed the reinforcements for the southern Centisian garrison force, had sent on three quarters of his army under Sture to lift the Haladin siege of Polston.
We constantly notice in his verse that dainty effect which the ear loves, and which comes from deft marshalling of consonants and vowels, so that they shall add their suppler and subtler reinforcement to the steady infantry tramp of rhythm.