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Definition of Reinforcement

1. Noun. 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"

2. Noun. Information that makes more forcible or convincing. "His gestures provided eloquent reinforcement for his complaints"

3. Noun. (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it.

4. Noun. A device designed to provide additional strength. "He used gummed reinforcements to hold the page in his notebook"

5. Noun. An act performed to strengthen approved behavior.

Definition of Reinforcement

1. n. See Reënforcement.

Definition of Reinforcement

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Reinforcement

1. 1. An increase of force or strength; denoting specifically the increased sharpness of the patellar reflex when the patient at the same time closes the fist tightly or pulls against the flexed fingers or contracts some other set of muscles. See: Jendrassik's manoeuvre. 2. A structural addition or inclusion used to give additional strength in function; e.g., bars in plastic denture base. 3. In conditioning, the totality of the process in which the conditioned stimulus is followed by presentation of the unconditioned stimulus which, itself, elicits the response to be conditioned. See: reinforcer, schedules of reinforcement, classical conditioning, operant conditioning. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reinforcement

reinflamed reinflames reinflaming reinflate reinflated reinflates reinflating reinflation reinflations reinforce

reinforceable reinforced reinforced anchorage reinforced concrete reinforcement (current term) reinforcement (current term) reinforcements reinforcement schedule reinforcer reinforcer

reinforcers reinforces reinforcing reinforcing stimulus reinform reinformed reinforming reinforms reinfund reinfunds

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