feedback loop

noun

, Computers, Electronics.

1. the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.

Word History and Origins

Origin of feedback loop¹

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

The additional level of uncertainty about how people will respond to the threat complicates the feedback loop between human behavior, modeling outcomes and the dynamics of an outbreak.

From Quanta Magazine

When these investors further ignite our passionate audience, we hope to set a positive feedback loop in motion with environmental technologies as the ultimate beneficiary.

From TechCrunch

It is a negative feedback loop with huge consequences, and it costs the global economy trillions of dollars annually.

From Time

For we have billions of neurons connected to each other in an exquisite tapestry of communication and feedback loops.

From Nautilus

Unfortunately, that feeling can cause a sort of feedback loop.

From Popular-Science

It was a self-fulfilling prophecy, a feedback loop of rational and irrational fears.

From The Daily Beast

Now the action will shift back to the Senate, where the feedback loop will likely continue.

From The Daily Beast

The result is a global feedback loop of increasing negativity, which in itself has become yet another risk.

From The Daily Beast

The feedback loop has driven the scale, and stakes, of the humble college road trip to monster proportions.

From The Daily Beast

Hackers create a feedback loop of pings and requests that overloads the target Web site.

From The Daily Beast