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open loop

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noun

Engineering.
  1. a control system in which an input alters the output, but the output has no feedback loop and therefore no effect on the input.


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"You get a ping on a device and it creates an open loop," says Ms Marshall.

From BBC Oct. 1, 2023

In the most popular systems, called open loop scrubbers, seawater is discharged to the ocean after little or no treatment.

From Science Magazine May 13, 2021

Many approaches, he says, are open loop, meaning that they don’t track the effect of the modulation using an EEG.

From Nature Feb. 27, 2018

So-called "open loop" cards carry credit card company logos and are re-loadable.

From Reuters Aug. 10, 2016

The open loop of the final w is a still bolder deviation into A. W. 's own hand.

From Foul Play by Reade, Charles

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