a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
<noun.act> they called for artillery support
information that makes more forcible or convincing
<noun.communication> his gestures provided eloquent reinforcement for his complaints
(psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
<noun.cognition>
a device designed to provide additional strength
<noun.artifact> the cardboard backing was just a strengthener he used gummed reinforcements to hold the page in his notebook
an act performed to strengthen approved behavior
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Reinforcement \Re`in*force"ment\ (-ment), n. See {Re["e]nforcement}.
The NATM or Shotcrete method activates the loadbearing capacity of the soil by a combination of the sequence and pattern of excavation and support elements. Support will primarily consist of sprayed concrete (Shotcrete) reinforcement and steel girders.
In the second group, only the children received reinforcement for losing weight but were similarly trained to praise family members for weight-control behaviors.
Today, if stale ideology would cease to obscure reality, simultaneous reductions in the unemployment rate and in the price level could receive reinforcement from sustained economic growth.
"This decision was taken in recognition of the reinforcement of cooperation in Europe on security and the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking," said a Foreign Ministry spokesman.
In an interview today with "CBS This Morning," Powell said the announced Iraq reinforcement plan didn't trouble U.S. military planners, who are preparing for a possible order from Bush to launch an offensive to liberate Kuwait.
The additional aircraft are part of a broad-based reinforcement of U.S. deployments in and around Saudi Arabia, including more than 100,000 extra ground forces, more than 30,000 extra Marines and three additional aircraft carrier battle groups.
His father died of coronary disease, so he has been attending Pritikin sessions for the past six years for the medical examinations and the reinforcement that the training gives him.
'We want enlargement with a reinforcement of the European Union's powers,' he said. Ministers from the applicant countries warned that tepid support for EU membership could cool further.
Chrysler said in a statement that it would replace windshield wiper linkage components and install a reinforcement to the windshield frame on about 80,000 Jeep Wranglers.
They received information about social reinforcement without specific training in how to use the method.
What is needed is to strengthen the political centre, not weaken it. Even before the Danish vote political reinforcement was urgently needed, because of the drive to monetary union, enlargement and a more coherent foreign policy.
With this huge reinforcement, Germany was confident of victory over the "bled white" French and British, and I know of no historical peace at that time.
The new material combines a liquid crystal polymer for reinforcement with easy-to-use thermoplastic.
He said $102.9 million would be used to restore City Hall and scores of other buildings to their pre-earthquake conditions, and another $106.4 million for structural reinforcement of City Hall and the building that houses the Health Department.
The dependence on Soviet political and cultural reinforcement goes back to 1921, when Soviet forces helped Mongolia drive out the Chinese who had occupied the country for more than 200 years and set up the world's second Communist state.
A room with large muted abstractions by Sam Francis, Morris Louis, Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still offers a particularly strong example of this kind of mutual reinforcement.
The composition is frontal, insistent in its repetition and reinforcement of the architecture, at once formal and descriptive.
Earlier this year, the board undertook more than 100 improvements, including the removal of wooden panels from escalators, staff retraining and reinforcement of liaison procedures with emergency services.
The two-story roadway, designed in the mid-1940s and completed in 1957, was supported by columns that apparently lacked the kind of steel reinforcement used in highways today.
"Both sides agreed to continue these kind of discussions on the grounds that the reinforcement of the security relationship between the two countries is important," a South Korean statement said after the first session.
Sometimes even an obvious answer can benefit from a pollster's reinforcement.
Somehow, we must develop a schedule of reinforcement that sustains the now short-lived sensitivity business-ethics courses demonstrably achieve.
Different grades are sold on to be melted down and re-used as pipes and reinforcement bars. The scrap metal trade is at the more lucrative end of Vietnam's recycling industry.
The modifications were begun in 1986 under Boeing's aging aircraft program and included the replacement of the old aluminum skin with a new aluminum alloy and reinforcement of the area.
He countered by pushing "high expectations" and the belief that "all children can learn." In 1986, he transferred Columbia Park's principal and replaced him with Ms. Green, a devotee of parental involvement and positive reinforcement.
Chrysler said the seat cushion frame in the cars will be replaced with a stronger one and a reinforcement installed in a seat power adjuster.
Fiberglas Canada is Canada's largest producer of glass fiber insulation and reinforcement, with 1988 profit of $35 million on sales of $395 million.
Phenolic resins, developed decades ago, have since been strengthened with glass fiber reinforcement and proven to be durable in a variety of parts under the hoods of cars on the road.