Meaning of positive feedback | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A situation where some function of the output of a system, process, or mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends to increase any divergence of the output from its initial value.
   uncountable
2. A feedback loop in which the output of a system is amplified with a net positive gain and added to the input signal before the main amplifier.
   uncountable
3. Feedback which builds upon previous feedback.
   figuratively, uncountable

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Examples

“The decision to include wild cereals in the collection may have been initially a random act of gathering, but once that decision had been made it triggered a runaway system of positive feedback in which the entire culture was transformed.”

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