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English

Etymology

From feed +? back.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi?d?bæk/

Noun

feedback (usually uncountable, plural feedbacks)

1. Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.

   Synonyms: estimation, assessment, critique, evaluation

2. (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.

3. 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)

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.

2. (transitive) To provide informational feedback to.

3. (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)

1. 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

1. (jargon) feedback

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English feedback.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fid.bak/

Noun

feedback m (plural feedbacks)

1. 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)

1. feedback (assessment on information produced)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English feedback.

Noun

feedback m (plural feedbacks)

1. Alternative form of retroalimentación (“feedback”)

English

Etymology

From Middle English insight, insiht (“insight, mental vision, intelligence, understanding”), equivalent to in- +? sight. Perhaps continuing Old English insiht (“narrative, argument, account”), from Proto-Germanic *insahtiz (“account, narrative, argument”). Compare West Frisian ynsjoch (“insight”), Dutch inzicht (“insight, awareness, view, opinion”), German Low German Insicht (“insight”), German Einsicht (“insight, knowledge, perception, understanding”), Danish indsigt (“insight”), Swedish insikt (“insight”), Icelandic innsýn (“insight”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n's?t, IPA^(key): /??nsa?t/

Noun

insight (countable and uncountable, plural insights)

1. A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into.
2. Power of acute observation and deduction

   Synonyms: penetration, discernment, perception

3. (marketing) Knowledge (usually derived from consumer understanding) that a company applies in order to make a product or brand perform better and be more appealing to customers
4. Intuitive apprehension of the inner nature of a thing or things; intuition.
5. (artificial intelligence) An extended understanding of a subject resulting from identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario.
6. (psychiatry) An individual's awareness of the nature and severity of one's mental illness.

Related terms

• outsight

Translations

Further reading

• insight in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• insight in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Tignish, histing, shiting, sight in, sithing