Usually means: Molding behavior through reinforcement techniques.
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  1. shaping: Merriam-Webster
  2. shaping: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shaping: Vocabulary.com
  4. Shaping, shaping: Wordnik
  5. shaping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. shaping: Wiktionary
  7. shaping: Dictionary.com
  8. shaping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Shaping (operant conditioning), Shaping (psychology), Shaping: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Shaping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. shaping: Rhymezone
  12. Shaping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. shaping: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. shaping: FreeDictionary.org
  15. shaping: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. shaping: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shaping: Legal dictionary

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  1. Shaping (operant conditioning), shaping: Encyclopedia

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  1. shaping: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. Shaping (operant conditioning), shaping: Medical dictionary

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  1. shaping: Idioms

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  1. Shaping: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shaping)

noun:  The action of the verb to shape.
noun:  (psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in a series of steps in operant conditioning.
noun:  The action of the metal-cutting machine called a shaper, which uses linear single-point cutting. It is largely but not entirely obsolete.

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