Feedback

Definitions

1. Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
   uncountable, usually
2. The part of an output signal that is looped back into the input to control or modify a system.
   uncountable, usually
3. The high-pitched howling noise heard when there is a loop between a microphone and a speaker.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

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

““Over the past month, the Department has held three separate⟳ meetings with the ACLU to receive⟳ feedback and engage⟳ the organization in the solutions,” the department said in a statement. “As a result⟳ of the meetings, the Department agrees that publishing FIO statistics going forward⟳ is necessary, and the Department is working toward personalizing interactions between officers and citizens.””

“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.”

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

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