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See also: Feedback, feed-back, and feed back

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Etymology

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From feed +‎ back.

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Noun

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feedback (usually uncountable, plural feedbacks)

  1. 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.
  2. (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.
  3. (amplification) 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.

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Verb

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feedback (third-person singular simple present feedbacks, present participle feedbacking, simple past and past participle feedbacked)

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive) To provide informational feedback to.
    His employees feedbacked him a lot more than he wanted.
  3. (transitive) To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
    Customers feedbacked their complaints and some praise.

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  • Some are likely to prefer feed back and its inflected forms feeds back, feeding back, or fed back.

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Danish

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Etymology

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From English feedback.

Noun

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feedback c (singular definite feedbacken, not used in plural form)

  1. feedback (critical evaluation)

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English feedback.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfid.bɛk/, /fitˈbɛk/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: feed‧back

Noun

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feedback m (uncountable)

  1. feedback

Finnish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English feedback.

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Noun

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feedback

  1. (jargon) feedback

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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
abessive feedbackittä feedbackeittä
instructive feedbackein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of feedback (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English feedback.

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feedback m (plural feedbacks)

  1. feedback (generic)

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English feedback. First attested in 1976.[1]

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Noun

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feedback m inan

  1. feedback (critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results)
    Synonyms: informacja zwrotna, uwaga, opinia zwrotna

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  1. ^ Adam Podgórecki (1976) Zagadnienia patologii społecznej[1] (in Polish)

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English feedback.

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌfid͡ʒˈbɛ.ki/, /ˌfid͡ʒˈbɛk/, /ˌfi.d͡ʒiˈbɛ.ki/, /ˌfi.d͡ʒiˈbɛk/, /ˌfidˈbɛk/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌfid͡ʒˈbɛk/, /ˌfid͡ʒˈbɛ.ki/, /ˌfidˈbɛk/

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feedback m (plural feedbacks)

  1. feedback (assessment on information produced)
    Synonyms: comentário, avaliação, retorno
  2. (electronics) feedback (signal that is looped back to control a system within itself)
    Synonyms: retroalimentação, realimentação
  3. feedback (howling sound)
    Synonyms: retorno, microfonia

Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English feedback.

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feedback n (plural feedbackuri)

  1. feedback

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative feedback feedbackul feedbackuri feedbackurile
genitive-dative feedback feedbackului feedbackuri feedbackurilor
vocative feedbackule feedbackurilor

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English feedback.

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feedback m (plural feedbacks)

  1. feedback
    Synonym: retroalimentación

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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.

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