feedback

feed·back  (fdbk)

n.

1.

a. The return of a portion of the output of a process or system to the input, especially when used to maintain performance or to control a system or process.

b. The portion of the output so returned.

c. Sound created when a transducer such as a microphone or electric guitar picks up sound from a speaker connected to an amplifier and regenerates it back through the amplifier.

2. The return of information about the result of a process or activity; an evaluative response: asked the students for feedback on the new curriculum.

3. The process by which a system, often biological or ecological, is modulated, controlled, or changed by the product, output, or response it produces.

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feedback

Noun

1. information in response to an inquiry or experiment: considerable feedback from the customers

2. the return of part of the output of an electronic circuit to its input

3. the return of part of the sound output of a loudspeaker to the microphone, so that a high-pitched whine is produced

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feedback  (fdbk)

The supply of an input to some process or system as a function of its output. See more at negative feedbackpositive feedback

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	feedback - the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output natural action, natural process, action, activity - a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity" negative feedback - feedback in opposite phase with (decreasing) the input positive feedback, regeneration - feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input
	2.	feedback - response to an inquiry or experiment answer, reply, response - a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation; "I waited several days for his answer"; "he wrote replies to several of his critics"

Translations

feedback [ˈfiːdbæk] n (from person) → reacción f;

(TECH) → realimentación f; feedback m

feedback [ˈfiːdbæk] feed n (Elec) → effet m Larsen;

(from person) → réactions fpl

feedback [ˈfiːdbæk] feed n → Feedback nt, Rückmeldung f;

(from person) → Reaktion f

feedback [ˈfiːdbæk] n → feed-back m;

(from person) → reazioni fpl