shaping

The act of forming or reducing to shape.

Specifically The cutting and fitting of clothes; tailoring.

Representation; imagination; that which is formed or imagined.

A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in operant conditioning.

The action of the verb to shape.

Present participle of shape.

the act of fabricating something in a particular shape

any process serving to define the shape of something

forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning