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Meanings of reinforcement in English

Spanish
refuerzo

A military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission.

        refuerzo
        Portuguese
        revestimento
        Catalan
        reforç
        Spanish
        reforzador

        (Psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it.

              revestimento
              Catalan
              recompensa

              An act performed to strengthen approved behavior.

                    recompensa
                    Russian
                    reinforcement
                    Portuguese
                    reforço positivo
                    Spanish
                    reforzador

                    Consequence that will strengthen an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus.

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                            reinforcement
                            Usage of reinforcement in English
                            1
                            This reinforcement raised the confidence of the little party in the hut.
                            The Gilpins and their Fortunes: A Story of Early Days in Austral...
                            2
                            Here, we investigated whether cannabinoid-opioid interactions modulate motivational effects of food reinforcement.
                            Pubmed
                            3
                            Third, our recent demonstration should delay a reinforcement action on their part.
                            The Big U
                            4
                            These results add evidence to the reinforcement of the IEB by SNS.
                            Pubmed
                            5
                            Cutting was reinforcement: physical proof that I was damaged, not worth saving.
                            Ebony
                            6
                            Orders are issued already for the reinforcement and reorganisation of the army.
                            Daisy in the Field
                            7
                            The advance of this reinforcement reached Nashville on the 30th of November.
                            Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2
                            8
                            The reinforcement was erected inside the forms for both columns and girders.
                            Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs
                            9
                            Background: Altered corticostriatothalamic encoding of reinforcement is a core feature of depression.
                            Pubmed
                            10
                            A beleaguered board required reinforcement and Cousins was a perfect heavyweight appointment.
                            The Guardian
                            11
                            That general at the same moment, received another small but unexpected reinforcement.
                            History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
                            12
                            We can therefore only slowly recur to the reinforcement of universal service.
                            Germany and the Next War
                            13
                            Not all expressions suitable for conversation need reinforcement in black and white.
                            A Williams Anthology / A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Wi...
                            14
                            The infrastructure is all there, but it needed a lot of reinforcement.
                            Repo men
                            15
                            Then, after the birds were trained, the researchers changed the reinforcement schedule.
                            Have a new kid by friday: how to change your child's attitude, b...
                            16
                            The hamster tubes gradually disappeared within shrouds of structural reinforcement and shielding.
                            Seveneves
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                            Translations for reinforcement
                            Reinforcement through the time
                            Reinforcement across language varieties
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