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View synonyms for reinforcement

reinforcement

[ ree-in-fawrs-muhnt, -fohrs- ]

noun

  1. the act of reinforcing.
  2. the state of being reinforced.
  3. something that reinforces or strengthens.
  4. Often reinforcements. an additional supply of personnel, ships, aircraft, etc., for a military force.
  5. a system of steel bars, strands, wires, or mesh for absorbing the tensile and shearing stresses in concrete work.
  6. Psychology.
    1. a procedure, as a reward or punishment, that alters a response to a stimulus.
    2. the act of reinforcing a response.


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  • nonre·in·forcement noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of reinforcement1

First recorded in 1600–10; reinforce + -ment
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Example Sentences

After a spike in looting and arson, the governor sent in state police as reinforcements.

So, a key to deep reinforcement learning is developing a good value function.

In deep reinforcement learning, algorithms go through a similar process as they take action.

During a viral infection, the infected cells put out a call to arms and a call for reinforcements, says virologist Benjamin tenOever of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

“It makes no sense,” tenOever says, as the juiced up call for reinforcements “doesn’t even necessarily benefit the virus.”

In a vain attempt at positive self-reinforcement, chalk all this up to maybe having worked out too hard last week.

There are a lot of kids out there who need help who are getting a lot of negative reinforcement.

The Chinese won immediate security reinforcement against Soviet pressures.

He did so while specifically tying his decision to the reinforcement of civilian control.

The cargo includes cement, reinforcement bars, and prefabricated wooden houses.

This reinforcement, so much sooner than expected, greatly elated Major Powell.

The War Office seem rather pleased than otherwise that this reinforcement has fallen through.

Glover and the muleteers, steadied by this opportune reinforcement, reloaded and resumed their file-firing.

The bourgeois looked in stupefaction at this reinforcement that was about to join the attacking party.

Such a reinforcement of the French navy would put it again on a war footing.

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