feedback
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Noun (2)
- the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further outputType of natural process, natural actionKinds positive feedback, negative feedback
- response to an inquiry or experimentType of answer, reply
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Translations
Noun critical assessment of process or activity
- Spanish
- feedback
- French
- retour d'information
- German
- Feedback
- Portuguese
- feedback
- Turkish
- geri bildirim
- Russian
- обра́тная связь obrátnaja svjazʹ
- Chinese
- 反馈 fǎnkuì
- Japanese
- フィードバック fīdobakku
- Polish
- sprzężenie zwrotne
- Swedish
- återkoppling
13 more languages
- Greek
- ανάδραση anádrasi
- Korean
- 피드백 pideubaek
- Indonesian
- umpan balik
- Hungarian
- visszajelzés
- Portuguese (PT)
- feedback
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 反饋 fǎnkuì
- Catalan
- realimentació
- Czech
- zpětná vazba
- Finnish
- palaute
- Georgian
- უკუკავშირი uḳuḳavširi
- Hebrew
- פִידְבֶּק fídbek
- Romanian
- reacție
- Welsh
- atborth
Noun feedback signal in a system
- Spanish
- retroacción
- French
- rétroaction
- German
- Rückkopplung
- Italian
- retroazione
- Portuguese
- retroalimentação
- Russian
- обра́тная связь obrátnaja svjazʹ
- Chinese
- 反馈 fǎnkuì
- Japanese
- フィードバック fīdobakku
- Polish
- sprzężenie zwrotne
- Swedish
- återkoppling
10 more languages
- Greek
- ανάδραση anádrasi
- Korean
- 피드백 pideubaek
- Portuguese (PT)
- retroalimentação
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 反饋 fǎnkuì
- Catalan
- realimentació
- Czech
- zpětná vazba
- Finnish
- takaisinkytkentä
- Georgian
- უკუკავშირი uḳuḳavširi
- Hebrew
- פִידְבֶּק fídbek
- Welsh
- atborth
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input.
2. response to an inquiry or experiment.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: WordNet 1.5
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<electronics> Part of a system output presented at its input. Feedback may be unintended. When used as a design feature, the output is usually transformed by passive components which attenuate it in some manner; the result is then presented at the system input.
Feedback is positive or negative, depending on the sign with which a positive change in the original input reappears after transformation. Negative feedback was invented by Black to stabilise vacuum tube amplifiers. The behaviour becomes largely a function of the feedback transformation and only minimally a function of factors such as transistor gain which are imperfectly known.
Positive feedback can lead to instability; it finds wide application in the construction of oscillators.
Feedback can be used to control a system, as in feedback control.
(1996-01-02)