feedback
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfiːdˌbæk/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
feedback (usually uncountable, plural feedbacks)
- Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
- Synonyms: estimation, assessment, critique, evaluation
- After you hand in your essays, I will give both grades and feedback.
- (electronics, cybernetics, control theory) The part of an output signal that is looped back into the input to control or modify a system.
- 2007, 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 feedback in the sensory loop and the motor misfirings that, once started, grow relentlessly worse.
- 2007, 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.
- Synonyms: audio feedback, Larsen effect, howlback, howlround
- 2002, John Griesemer, No One Thinks of Greenland, Picador, →ISBN:
- A loud feedback screech blasted from a speaker on the wall. It was a hailing signal of some kind.
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Related terms
- feedback control
- feedback loop
Descendants
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.
Danish
Noun
feedback c (singular definite feedbacken, not used in plural form)
- feedback (clarification of this definition is needed)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfid.bɛk/, (generally used by people with worse English skills) /fitˈbɛk/
- Hyphenation: feed‧back
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfiːdbæk/, [ˈfiːdbæk]
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 | |
| Possessive forms of feedback (type risti) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | feedbackini | feedbackimme |
| 2nd person | feedbackisi | feedbackinne |
| 3rd person | feedbackinsä | |
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fid.bak/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “feedback”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfid.bɛk/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -idbɛk
- Syllabification: feed‧back
Noun
feedback m inan
Declension
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- feed-back
- fio de beque (humorous)
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌfid͡ʒˈbɛ.ki/, /ˌfid͡ʒˈbɛk/, /ˌfi.d͡ʒiˈbɛ.ki/, /ˌfi.d͡ʒiˈbɛk/, /ˌfidˈbɛk/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌfid͡ʒˈbɛk/, /ˌfid͡ʒˈbɛ.ki/, /ˌfidˈbɛk/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /fi.dɨˈbɛ.k(ɨ)/ [fi.ðɨˈβɛ.k(ɨ)]
Noun
feedback m (plural feedbacks)
- (electronics) feedback (signal that is looped back to control a system within itself)
- feedback (howling sound)
- feedback (assessment on information produced)
Romanian
Declension
Declension of feedback
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) feedback | feedbackul | (niște) feedbackuri | feedbackurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) feedback | feedbackului | (unor) feedbackuri | feedbackurilor |
| vocative | feedbackule | feedbackurilor | ||
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfidbak/ [ˈfið̞.β̞ak]
- Rhymes: -idbak
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- “feedback”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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