feedback
IPA: fˈidbæk
noun
- 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.
- (amplification) The high-pitched howling noise heard when there is a loop between a microphone and a speaker.
verb
- (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.
feed back
IPA: fˈidbˈæk
verb
- (transitive) To provide informational feedback to.
- (transitive) To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
- To return electrical current generated by some means (such as solar panels, regenerative braking) to the power grid.
feed-back
IPA: fˈidbæk
noun
- Alternative form of feedback [Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.]
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Examples of "feedback" in Sentences
Examples of "feed-back" in Sentences
- Acid rain is still with us and is a serious positive feed-back for CO2.
- It is the classic "snowball effect" or "positive feed-back loop," to borrow from engineering jargon.
- Pelosi is a virtuous feed-back loop for us: every point at which the Dems could have walked away she keeps pushing the cram-down!
- In the case of glycolysis and alcohol fermentation in yeast, theoretical models and research clearly formed a positive feed-back loop.
- We won't be terraforming our local planet group any time soon, and using AI, bio feed-back, robots and rovers really is the way to explore – Humans are the way to colonise.
- It will be no great surprise if climate models suffer from the same defect, this time because of an understandable conservatism in assumptions about the operation of positive feed-back loops where knowledge is not yet firm.
- To reiterate, the growing gravitation of authoritarians to the Republican Party over the past generation is an important determinant in understanding the closed feed-back loop of the current right-wing information environment.
- This is what the European Central Bank means when it talks obscurely of government indebtedness as having “opened up a number of hazardous contagion channels and adverse feed-back loops between financial systems and public finances.”
- The exploitative factor: the flexibility of living things by which they are able to occupy new niches in the changing environment; i. e., a feed-back mechanism which guides the selective process toward a new type which can exploit new environmental possibilities
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