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shaping

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shaping [′shāp·iŋ]
(electromagnetism)
The adjustment of a plan-position-indicator pattern set up by a rotating magnetic field.
(mechanical engineering)
A machining process in which a reciprocating single-point tool moves over the work in straight, parallel lines to produce a flat surface.
shaping
(psychology)
Therapeutic reinforcement of those responses that increasingly approximate sought-after behaviors.
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In shaping my future course I am now resolved to act on my own convictions--in preference to taking the well-meant advice of such friends as are still left to me.
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All the time the strangeness of him was shaping itself in my mind; and as I talked I peered at his odd, pallid face in the dim light of the binnacle lantern behind me.
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Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.
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