feedback

See also: Feedback
See also Wiktionary:Feedback to give anonymous feedback and comments about Wiktionary.

English

Etymology

From feed +‎ back.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfiːdˌbæk/

Noun

feedback (uncountable)

  1. 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. (cybernetics, systems) The signal that is looped back to control a system within itself.
  3. The high-pitched howling noise heard when there's a loop between a microphone and a speaker.

Usage notes

  • Adjectives often used with "feedback": positive, negative, delayed, linear, nonlinear, etc.

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Verb

feedback (third-person singular simple present feedbacks, present participle feedbacking, simple past and past participle feedbacked)

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive) To provide informational feedback to.
    His employees feedbacked him a lot more than he wanted.
  3. (transitive) To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
    Customers feedbacked their complaints and some praise.

Usage notes

  • Some are likely to prefer "feed back" and its inflected forms "feeds back", "feeding back", or "fed back".

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English feedback.

Noun

feedback

  1. feedback

Declension

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
instructive — feedbackein
abessive feedbackittä feedbackeittä
comitative — feedbackeineen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English feedback.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fid.bak/

Noun

feedback m (plural feedbacks)

  1. feedback (generic)

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English feedback.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌfid͡ʒ.ˈbɛk/, /ˌfid.ˈbɛk/, /ˌfid͡ʒ.ˈbɛ.ki/

Noun

feedback m (plural feedbacks)

  1. feedback (assessment on information produced)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English feedback.

Noun

feedback m (plural feedbacks)

  1. feedback
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