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biofeedback
English
Etymology
bio- +? feedback
Noun
biofeedback (countable and uncountable, plural biofeedbacks)
- A technique consisting of measuring a person's quantifiable bodily functions, such as blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, sweat gland activity, and muscle tension, then conveying the information to the person in real-time.
Descendants
- ? Italian: biofeedback
Translations
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English biofeedback.
Noun
biofeedback m (uncountable)
- biofeedback
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feedback
- See also Wiktionary:Feedback to give anonymous feedback and comments about Wiktionary.
English
Etymology
From feed +? back.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fi?d?bæk/
Noun
feedback (usually uncountable, plural feedbacks)
- Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
- Synonyms: estimation, assessment, critique, evaluation
- (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.
- 2007, Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
- 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.
Hyponyms
- negative feedback
- positive feedback
Coordinate terms
- buffering
- feedforward
Derived terms
- biofeedback
- feedbacker
Related terms
- feedback control
- feedback loop
Descendants
- ? German: Feedback
- ? Japanese: ??????? (f?dobakku)
- ? Spanish: retroalimentación (calque)
Translations
Verb
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.
- (transitive) To provide informational feedback to.
- (transitive) To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
Usage notes
- Some are likely to prefer feed back and its inflected forms feeds back, feeding back, or fed back.
Further reading
- feedback on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- audio feedback on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish
Etymology
From English feedback.
Noun
feedback c (singular definite feedbacken, not used in plural form)
- feedback (clarification of this definition is needed)
Synonyms
- respons
- tilbagemelding
- tilbagekobling
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English feedback.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fi?dbæk/, [?fi?dbæk]
Noun
feedback
- (jargon) feedback
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English feedback.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fid.bak/
Noun
feedback m (plural feedbacks)
- feedback (generic)
Further reading
- “feedback” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English feedback.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?fid??.?b?k/, /?fid.?b?k/, /?fid??.?b?.ki/
Noun
feedback m (plural feedbacks)
- feedback (assessment on information produced)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English feedback.
Noun
feedback m (plural feedbacks)
- Alternative form of retroalimentación (“feedback”)
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