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positive feedback

Feedback that results in amplification or growth of the output signal.

positive feedback

(Electronics) See feedback [1]

positive feedback

Feedback in which the output quantity or signal adds to the input quantity or signal. Positive feedback is responsible for the squealing of microphones when placed too close to the speaker through which their input signals are amplified. Compare negative feedback.

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Noun

positive feedback - feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input

regeneration

feedback - the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output

vicious circle, vicious cycle - one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first

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positive feedback

n → positives Feedback, positive Reaktion; (Elec) → Rückkopplung f; to give somebody positive feedback (about somebody/something) → jdm eine positive Rückmeldung (zu jdm/etw) geben; to get positive feedback (about somebody/something) → eine positive Rückmeldung (zu jdm/etw) erhalten

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positive feedback (redirected from Cumulative Causation)

positive feedback
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