feedback
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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.
- (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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Descendants edit
- → German: Feedback
- → Japanese: フィードバック (fīdobakku)
- → Korean: 피드백 (pideubaek)
- → Polish: feedback
- → Portuguese: feedback
- → Russian: фидбэ́к (fidbɛ́k)
- → Spanish: feedback, → retroalimentación (calque)
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Verb edit
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 edit
- Some are likely to prefer feed back and its inflected forms feeds back, feeding back, or fed back.
Further reading edit
- feedback on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- audio feedback on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
feedback c (singular definite feedbacken, not used in plural form)
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Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English feedback.
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feedback m (uncountable)
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English feedback.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
feedback
- (jargon) feedback
Declension edit
Inflection of feedback (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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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. |
Further reading edit
- “feedback”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English feedback.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
feedback m (plural feedbacks)
- feedback (generic)
Further reading edit
- “feedback”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English feedback. First attested in 1976.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
feedback m inan
- feedback (critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results)
- Synonyms: informacja zwrotna, uwaga, opinia zwrotna
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | feedback | feedbacki |
genitive | feedbacku | feedbacków |
dative | feedbackowi | feedbackom |
accusative | feedback | feedbacki |
instrumental | feedbackiem | feedbackami |
locative | feedbacku | feedbackach |
vocative | feedbacku | feedbacki |
Related terms edit
References edit
Further reading edit
- feedback in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English feedback.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English feedback.
Noun edit
feedback n (plural feedbackuri)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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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 edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English feedback.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
feedback m (plural feedbacks)
- feedback
- Synonym: retroalimentación
Usage notes edit
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 edit
- “feedback”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014