Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
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
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.
• Adjectives often used with "feedback": positive, negative, delayed, linear, nonlinear, etc.
• (noise): Larsen effect, howlback, howlround
• back
• negative feedback
• positive feedback
• buffering
• feedforward
• howlback
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.
• Some are likely to prefer "feed back" and its inflected forms "feeds back", "feeding back", or "fed back".
Source: Wiktionary
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.