Fabric vs Reinforcement - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between fabric and reinforcement

is that fabric is structure, building while reinforcement is the act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.

* fabrick (obsolete)

(wikipedia fabric)

(archaic) structure, building

* Milton

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.

(archaic) The act of constructing; construction; fabrication.

* Milman

Tithe was received by the bishop for the fabric of the churches for the poor.

(archaic) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make.

cloth of a beautiful fabric

The framework underlying a structure

the fabric of our lives

the fabric of the universe

A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

cotton fabric

(petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock

(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance

The internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers

* See also

* re-enforcement, reenforcement,

(en-noun)

(uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.

(countable) A thing that reinforces.

(in the plural) Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.

The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.

* negative reinforcement * positive reinforcement * primary reinforcement