feedback

English Online Dictionary. What means feedback‎? What does feedback mean?

English

Etymology

From feed +‎ back.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːdˌbæk/

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.
3. (amplification) The high-pitched howling noise heard when there is a loop between a microphone and a speaker.

   Synonyms: audio feedback, Larsen effect, howlback, howlround

Hyponyms

• negative feedback
• positive feedback

Coordinate terms

• buffering
• feedforward

Derived terms

Descendants

• → German: Feedback
• → Japanese: フィードバック (fīdobakku)
• → Korean: 피드백 (pideubaek)
• → Polish: feedback
• → Portuguese: feedback
• → Russian: фидбэ́к (fidbɛ́k)
• → Spanish: feedback, → 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 (critical evaluation)

Synonyms

• respons
• tilbagemelding
• tilbagekobling

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English feedback.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfid.bɛk/, /fitˈbɛk/
• Hyphenation: feed‧back

Noun

feedback m (uncountable)

1. feedback

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English feedback.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːdbæk/, [ˈfiːdbæk]
• Rhymes: -iːdbæk

Noun

feedback

1. (jargon) feedback

Declension

Further reading

• “feedback”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English feedback. First attested in 1976.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfid.bɛk/
• Rhymes: -idbɛk
• Syllabification: feed‧back

Noun

feedback m inan

1. feedback (critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results)

   Synonyms: informacja zwrotna, uwaga, opinia zwrotna

Declension

Related terms

References

Further reading

• feedback in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• feed-back
• fio de beque (humorous)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English feedback.

Pronunciation

Noun

feedback m (plural feedbacks)

1. feedback (assessment on information produced)

   Synonyms: comentário, avaliação, retorno

2. (electronics) feedback (signal that is looped back to control a system within itself)

   Synonyms: retroalimentação, realimentação

3. feedback (howling sound)

   Synonyms: retorno, microfonia

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English feedback.

Noun

feedback n (plural feedbackuri)

1. feedback

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English feedback.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfidbak/ [ˈfið̞.β̞ak]
• Rhymes: -idbak

Noun

feedback m (plural feedbacks)

1. feedback

   Synonym: retroalimentación

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “feedback”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10