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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stimulus (“goad, prick”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?st?m.j?.l?s/

Noun

stimulus (plural stimuluses or stimuli)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Any external phenomenon that has an influence on a system, by triggering or modifying an internal phenomenon.

   an economic stimulus
2. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (physiology) Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response.
3. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (psychology) Anything effectively impinging upon any of the sensory apparatuses of a living organism, including physical phenomena both internal and external to the body.
4. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Anything that induces a person to take action.

Synonyms

• (anything that may have an impact or influence): influence
• (anything that induces a person to take action): impetus, impulse, spur

Translations

Esperanto

Verb

stimulus

1. conditional of stimuli

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stimulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti.my.lys/

Noun

stimulus m (plural stimulus or stimuli)

1. stimulus

Further reading

• “stimulus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (stíz?, “I mark”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sti.mu.lus/, [?s?t??m????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sti.mu.lus/, [?st?i?mulus]

Noun

stimulus m (genitive stimul?); second declension

1. a goad, prick
2. a sting
3. (figuratively) stimulus, incentive

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Related terms

• stimul?ti?
• stimul?

Descendants

References

• stimulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stimulus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stimulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• stimulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• stimulus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Probably from Latin

Noun

stimulus m (definite singular stimulusen, indefinite plural stimuli, definite plural stimuliene)

1. a stimulus

Related terms

• stimulere

References

• “stimulus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Probably from Latin

Noun

stimulus m (definite singular stimulusen, indefinite plural stimuli or stimulusar, definite plural stimuliane or stimulusane)

1. a stimulus

References

• “stimulus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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)

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”)