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Feedback
feedback
feedback
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English
Noun
feedback (uncountable)
- Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
- After you hand in your essays, I will give both grades and feedback.
- (cybernetics, systems) The signal that is looped back to control a system within itself.
- The high-pitched howling noise heard when there's 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
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Related terms
- feedback control
- feedback loop
Descendants
- Spanish: retroalimentación (calque)
Translations
critical assessment of process or activity
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signal that is looped back to control a system within itself
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howling noise
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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.
- The show ended with a riot of feedbacking guitars.
- (transitive) To provide informational feedback to.
- His employees feedbacked him a lot more than he wanted.
- (transitive) To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
- Customers feedbacked their complaints and some praise.
Usage notes
- Some are likely to prefer "feed back" and its inflected forms "feeds back", "feeding back", or "fed back".
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowing from English feedback.
Noun
feedback
Declension
| Inflection of feedback (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | feedback | feedbackit | |
| genitive | feedbackin | feedbackien | |
| partitive | feedbackiä | feedbackejä | |
| illative | feedbackiin | feedbackeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | feedback | feedbackit | |
| accusative | nom. | feedback | feedbackit |
| gen. | feedbackin | ||
| genitive | feedbackin | feedbackien | |
| partitive | feedbackiä | feedbackejä | |
| inessive | feedbackissä | feedbackeissä | |
| elative | feedbackistä | feedbackeistä | |
| illative | feedbackiin | feedbackeihin | |
| adessive | feedbackillä | feedbackeillä | |
| ablative | feedbackiltä | feedbackeiltä | |
| allative | feedbackille | feedbackeille | |
| essive | feedbackinä | feedbackeinä | |
| translative | feedbackiksi | feedbackeiksi | |
| instructive | — | feedbackein | |
| abessive | feedbackittä | feedbackeittä | |
| comitative | — | feedbackeineen | |
French
Etymology
Borrowing from English feedback.
Noun
feedback m (plural feedbacks)
- feedback (generic)