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feedback

ˈfidˌbæk
WordNet
  1. (n) feedback
    response to an inquiry or experiment
  2. (n) feedback
    the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output
Quotations
Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
Ken Blanchard
Usage in the news

Indie filmmakers plug into Web's social networking sites to find finance, distribution, and feedback. csmonitor.com

I am going out on a limb today and please know I am wide open to your feedback. the-daily-record.com

COLUMBIA — After being forced to take a step back last May, the MU Faculty Council is soliciting faculty feedback to reformulate the university's diversity course requirement proposal. columbiamissourian.com

Company founder holds bi-weekly meetings with board of employees in order to get feedback about company. inc.com

Since that time, the ACCME has received feedback from some stakeholders asking for more transparency, while others expressed concerns about providers' confidentiality. aafp.org

College students registered instant feedback to last night's presidential debate via computer and smart-phone. jbc.com

Apple patent is for tactile feedback. mactech.com

Black Tambourine 's feedback assaulted the crowd's ears, but its lullaby-in-a-cyclone style was oddly soothing. ashingtonpost.com

Have you had any feedback from Disney themselves regarding Touring Plans and the models and statistics you have developed. ired.com

Here's just a small smattering of feedback we've received on the process of booking rooms at the hotel we chose out in California. observer.com

Tac-Tic Drill The Elbow Tac-Tic training aid is a great learning tool, as it gives audio feedback when you excessively fold your arms in the backswing. golftipsmag.com

CHICAGO – Teachers union leaders say teacher evaluation should be about feedback and improvement rather than figuring out which ineffective teachers should be shown the classroom door. mlive.com

As a manager, do you provide regular feedback to employees to let them know if they're doing a good job or how they might improve their productivity. cornandsoybeandigest.com

CAT held public meetings over the past couple of months to get feedback from riders about proposed changes to service. 2.wsav.com

Brown gets feedback on tricentennial plans. natchezdemocrat.com

Usage in scientific papers

The application of the rules to the data is a significant feedback component of the tool shed.
A GRB Tool Shed

Due to feedback reaction between subsystems of lattice and electrons this fraction should be equal to ratio of wave length of primary and secondary ionic effectons.
Hierarchic Models of Turbulence, Superfluidity and Superconductivity

Moreover, in a more realistic model the mass dropout profiles would be lowered by internal supernova heating (feedback) not included in the DO models.
Entropy Evolution in Galaxy Groups and Clusters; A Comparison of External and Internal Heating

In cosmological simulations the efficiency of Type II supernova feedback is often chosen to be ǫSN ∼ 0.1−0.2, to allow for radiative losses.
Entropy Evolution in Galaxy Groups and Clusters; A Comparison of External and Internal Heating

Vanroose, How an Erd¨os-R´enyi-type search approach gives an explicit code construction of rate 1 for random access with multiplicity feedback.
Stochastic version of the Erdos-Renyi limit theorem

Usage in literature

What a hoot, making all this fuss about seven student feedback forms. "Wild Justice" by Ruth M. Sprague

Think of the feedback, too. "Naudsonce" by H. Beam Piper

Feedback will be to a master control servo that'll activate the heater or cooler. "Question of Comfort" by Les Collins

Before we leave, we throw the machines into feedback, every one of them. "Meeting of the Board" by Alan Edward Nourse

A normal telepathic reception will be accompanied, by a slight feedback. "Indirection" by Everett B. Cole

Without feedback, control was impossible, and the organism-as-a-whole slowly deteriorated until death was inevitable. "The Highest Treason" by Randall Garrett

Feedback effect of some sort, I suppose. "Final Weapon" by Everett B. Cole

But there's a feedback circuit in effect. "New Apples in the Garden" by Kris Ottman Neville

There is a nearly-complete feedback between the two. "The Dueling Machine" by Benjamin William Bova

Eighties women love "feedback", "interfacing". "Mascara-Viscera" by Paul Cameron Brown