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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)
Translations[edit]
critical assessment of process or activity
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signal that is looped back to control a system within itself
howling noise
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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)
Synonyms[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English feedback.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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]
Declension of feedback
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | feedback | feedbacki |
| genitive | feedbacku | feedbacków |
| dative | feedbackowi | feedbackom |
| accusative | feedback | feedbacki |
| instrumental | feedbackiem | feedbackami |
| locative | feedbacku | feedbackach |
| vocative | feedbacku | feedbacki |
Related terms[edit]
noun
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]
Declension of feedback
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
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