feedback

CEFRB2

/ˈfiːdˌbæk/

noun · verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

01
noun
Advice or information about how well someone or something is doing.
02
noun
Extra detail
The high-pitched howling noise heard when there is a loop between a microphone and a speaker.

Examples

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

The part of an output signal that is looped back into the input to control or modify a system.
Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.

Extra meaning

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.

In context

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“Over the past month, the Department has held three separate meetings with the ACLU to receive feedback and engage the organization in the solutions,” the department said in a statement. “As a result of the meetings, the Department agrees that publishing FIO statistics going forward is necessary, and the Department is working toward personalizing interactions between officers and citizens.”
2014 October 9, Marina Carver, “Study finds Boston police target African-Americans disproportionately”, in CNN
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
A loud feedback screech blasted from a speaker on the wall. It was a hailing signal of some kind.
2002, John Griesemer, No One Thinks of Greenland, Picador, →ISBN

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