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FEEDBACK
feedback
(noun) response to an inquiry or experiment
feedback
(noun) the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
feedback (usually uncountable, plural feedbacks)
Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
(electronics, cybernetics, control theory, ) The part of an output signal that is looped back into the input to control or modify a system.
The high-pitched howling noise heard when there is a loop between a microphone and a speaker.
Usage notes
• Adjectives often used with "feedback": positive, negative, delayed, linear, nonlinear, etc.
Synonyms
• (noise): Larsen effect, howlback, howlround
Hypernyms
• back
Hyponyms
• negative feedback
• positive feedback
Coordinate terms
• buffering
• feedforward
• howlback
Verb
feedback (third-person singular simple present feedbacks, present participle feedbacking, simple past and past participle feedbacked)
(music) To generate the high-frequency sound by allowing a speaker to cause vibration of the sound generator of a musical instrument connected by an amplifier to the speaker.
(transitive) To provide informational feedback to.
(transitive) To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
Usage notes
• Some are likely to prefer "feed back" and its inflected forms "feeds back", "feeding back", or "fed back".
Source: Wiktionary
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