positive feedback en · NOUN
Meanings
- (uncountable) A situation where some function of the output of a system, process, or mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends to increase any divergence of the output from its initial value. ▸ A feedback loop in which the output of a system is amplified with a net positive gain and added to the input signal before the main amplifier.
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(figuratively, uncountable) A situation where some function of the output of a system, process, or mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends to increase any divergence of the output from its initial value. ▸ Feedback which builds upon previous feedback.
The decision to include wild cereals in the collection may have been initially a random act of gathering, but once that decision had been made it triggered a runaway system of positive feedback in which the entire culture was transformed.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 131:
Antonyms
negative feedback · negative feedback
Relateds
chain reaction · vicious cycle · virtuous circle · virtuous cycle · vicious circle
Synonyms
regenerative feedback · regenerative feedback
Translations (10)
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