feedback
See also: Feedback
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
feedback (usually uncountable, plural feedbacks)
- 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.
- Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
- The fact that similar cortical abnormalities can be experimentally induced in monkeys has allowed Michael Merzenich and his colleagues in San Francisco to explore an animal model of focal dystonia, and to demonstrate the abnormal feedbacks in the sensory loop and the motor misfirings that, once started, grow relentlessly worse.
- Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
- 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
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Spanish: retroalimentación (calque)
Translations
critical assessment of process or activity
signal that is looped back to control a system within itself
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".
Danish
Etymology
Noun
feedback c (singular definite feedbacken, not used in plural form)
- feedback (clarification of this definition is needed)
Synonyms
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English feedback.
Pronunciation
Noun
feedback
- (jargon) feedback
Declension
Inflection of feedback (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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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 | |
abessive | feedbackittä | feedbackeittä | |
instructive | — | feedbackein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English feedback.
Pronunciation
Noun
feedback m (plural feedbacks)
- feedback (generic)
Further reading
- “feedback”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English feedback.
Pronunciation
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Noun
feedback m (plural s)
- feedback (assessment on information produced)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English feedback.
Noun
feedback m (plural feedbacks)
- feedback
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