Shaping

Shaping can refer to:

  • In electricity generation, maintaining reliable delivery, for example by use of pumped storage hydroelectricity
  • Shaping (psychology), the reinforcement of successive approximations to train a type of behavior
  • Traffic shaping, internet traffic management
  • Shaping (mechanical), a material removal process in which a cutting tool takes mass and shapes a stationary object to produce a sculpted or plane surface.
    • Gear shaper, the shaping process used specifically for gear manufacturing
  • Shaping (audio), modifications both additive and subtractive that alter the final timbre of the initial audio wave whether this is produced as an acoustic sound wave or an electric signal

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Famous quotes containing the word shaping:

    Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
    Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
    More than cool reason ever comprehends.
    The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
    Are of imagination all compact.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)