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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
- n information that makes more forcible or convincing
his gestures provided eloquent reinforcement for his complaints - n (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
- n a device designed to provide additional strength
he used gummed reinforcements to hold the page in his notebook - n an act performed to strengthen approved behavior
- Mike Scarpuzzi, vice president of zoological operations for SeaWorld California, says that the facility's tradition has always been the use of positive reinforcement.
- Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman AP It is a powerful reinforcement of McCain's own political brand: tough, reform-minded, willing to break with his own party for the right cause.
- The rats, and later pigeons, became the center of laboratory experiments in which he controlled behavior by setting up "contingencies of reinforcement"circumstances under which .