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[ ree-in-fawrs -muh nt, -fohrs - ] SHOW IPA
/ ˌri ɪnˈfɔrs mənt, -ˈfoʊrs- / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun the act of reinforcing.
the state of being reinforced.
something that reinforces or strengthens.
Often reinforcements. an additional supply of personnel, ships, aircraft, etc., for a military force.
a system of steel bars, strands, wires, or mesh for absorbing the tensile and shearing stresses in concrete work.
Psychology . a procedure, as a reward or punishment, that alters a response to a stimulus. the act of reinforcing a response. Origin of reinforcement First recorded in 1600–10; reinforce + -ment
OTHER WORDS FROM reinforcement non·re·in·force·ment, noun Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020
Example sentences from the Web for reinforcement Finally, a squad of reinforcement s arrived and they were able to retreat.
The Brothers Who Ambushed ISIS | Mohammed A. Salih| December 27, 2014| DAILY BEAST
She told him she and her comrades are in dire need of reinforcement s and if they had equal numbers they could beat them.
Kobani Still Stands Against ISIS and All Odds. But for How Long? | Jamie Dettmer| October 12, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Nothing but watch, that is, and prevent Kurdish reinforcement s from crossing the frontier to help defend Kobani.
Kobani is Falling to ISIS in Syria. Kurd Protests Explode in Turkey. | Jamie Dettmer| October 10, 2014| DAILY BEAST
With reinforcement s arriving from its Syrian factions, the group began their assault on the Kurdish Peshmerga.
Iraq’s Religious Minorities are Being Slaughtered and ISIS Just Captured the Last Town Giving Them Shelter | Andrew Slater| August 4, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Despite their appeals no reinforcement s were sent to Tikrit.
The Paper Tiger of the Tigris: How ISIS Took Tikrit Without a Fight | Andrew Slater| June 29, 2014| DAILY BEAST
As the day wore on reinforcement s of infantry came up from the force which had been left to guard the camp.
The Great Boer War | Arthur Conan Doyle
I asked for reinforcement s and provisions; we had been in the firing line for sixty hours.
Dixmude | Charles Le Goffic
I don't want to give them too much time to make repairs or to get any reinforcement s.
The Secret of the Ninth Planet | Donald Allen Wollheim
Jackson and Bolivar were yet threatened, but I sent the reinforcement s.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete | Ulysses S. Grant
The strength of the whole division was about 7,500, which was to be considerably increased by reinforcement s in Ngan-whui.
Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh | Augustus F. Lindley
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Words related to reinforcement aid, buttress, column, pillar, coating, prop, brace, help, reserves, beefing up
Medical definitions for reinforcement n. The act or process of reinforcing.
Something that reinforces.
The occurrence or experimental introduction of an unconditioned stimulus along with a conditioned stimulus.
The strengthening of a conditioned response by such means.
An event, a circumstance, or a condition that increases the likelihood that a given response will recur in a situation like that in which the reinforcing condition originally occurred.
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