shaping

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -eɪpɪŋ

shaping (plural shapings)

1. The action of the verb to shape.
   • 1996, Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change

     In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.

2. (psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in operant conditioning.

shaping

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) present participle of shape

• hasping, pashing, phasing