Shaping
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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 shapingTraffic shapingTraffic shaping is the control of computer network traffic in order to optimize or guarantee performance, improve latency, and/or increase usable bandwidth for some kinds of packets by delaying other kinds of packets that meet certain criteria...
, 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 shaperGear shaperA gear shaper is a machine tool for cutting the teeth of internal or external gears. The name shaper relates to the fact that the cutter engages the part on the forward stroke and pulls away from the part on the return stroke, just like the clapper box on a planer shaper.The cutting tool is also...
, the shaping process used specifically for gear manufacturing
- Gear shaper
- Shaping Village in Dali, YunnanDali, YunnanDali City is a county-level city in and the seat of the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, northwestern Yunnan province of Southwest China.-History:...