feedback

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English

Wikipedia

Etymology

feed +‎ back

Noun

feedback (uncountable)

1. Critical assessment on information produced

   After you hand in your essays, I will give both grades and feedback.

2. (cybernetics, systems) The signal that is looped back to control a system within itself.
3. 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): audio feedback
• (noise): Larsen effect

Derived terms

• biofeedback
• feedbacker
• feedback loop
• feedback control
• negative feedback
• positive feedback

Related terms

• feedforward
• buffering

Descendants

• Spanish: retroalimentación

Translations

critical assessment on information produced

• Arabic: تلقيم استرجاعي (ar) (talqiim istirjaa`iy) m, تقييم (ar) (taqyiim) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反饋 (cmn), 反馈 (cmn) (fǎnkuì), 反應 (cmn), 反应 (cmn) (fǎnyìng)

• Czech: zpětná vazba (cs) f
• Finnish: palaute (fi)
• French: évaluation (fr) f
• German: Rückmeldung (de) f

• Greek: ανάδραση (el) (anádrasi) f 
• Hungarian: visszajelzés (hu)
• Irish: aiseolas (ga) m
• Japanese: フィードバック (ja) (fīdobakku), 反応 (ja) (はんのう, hannō)
• Romanian: reacție (ro) f
• Russian: отзыв (ru) (ótzyv) m , отклик (ru) (ótklik) m , обратная связь (ru) (obrátnaja svjaz’) f , оценка (ru) (océnka) f 
• Slovak: spätná väzba (sk) f

signal that is looped back to control a system within itself

• Bulgarian: обратна връзка (bg) f (obratna vrǎzka)
• Czech: zpětná vazba (cs) f
• Esperanto: retroefiko (eo), retroago (eo)
• Finnish: takaisinkytkentä (fi)
• French: rétroaction (fr) f (boucle de rétroaction f = feedback loop)
• German: Rückkopplung (de) f
• Greek: ανάδραση (el) (anádrasi) f , ανατροφοδότηση (el) (anatrofodótisi) f 

• Hungarian: visszacsatolás (hu)
• Polish: sprzężenie zwrotne (pl) n
• Romanian: reacție (ro) f, efect retroactiv (ro) n
• Russian: обратная связь (ru) (obrátnaja svjaz’) f , фидбэк (ru) (fídbek) m 
• Slovak: spätná väzba (sk) f
• Spanish: retroacción (es), realimentación (es), retroalimentación (es)
• Swedish: återkoppling (sv) f

howling noise

• Finnish: kierto (fi)
• French: effet Larsen (fr) m

• Hungarian: gerjedés (hu)

Verb

feedback (third-person singular simple present feedbacks, present participle feedbacking, simple past and past participle feedbacked)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To provide informational feedback to.

   His employees feedbacked him a lot more than he wanted.

3. (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".

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Finnish

Etymology

From English feedback.

Noun

feedback

1. feedback

Declension

Declension of feedback (type risti) singular plural nominative feedback feedbackit genitive feedbackin feedbackien partitive feedbackiä feedbackejä accusative feedback feedbackin feedbackit 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

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French

Etymology

From English

Noun

feedback m (plural feedbacks)

1. feedback (generic)