feedback

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.

   After you hand in your essays, I will give both grades and feedback.

2. 2
   noun

   The part of an output signal that is looped back into the input to control or modify a system.

   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. 3
   noun

   The high-pitched howling noise heard when there is a loop between a microphone and a speaker.

   A loud feedback screech blasted from a speaker on the wall. It was a hailing signal of some kind.

4. 4
   verb

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   To provide informational feedback to.

   His employees feedbacked him a lot more than he wanted.

6. 6
   verb

   To convey by means of specialized communications channel.

   Customers feedbacked their complaints and some praise.

7. 7
   noun

   response to an inquiry or experiment

8. 8
   noun

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

Etymology

From feed + back.