feedback loop

English

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Noun

feedback loop (plural feedback loops)

1. A self-reinforcing or self-weakening effect.

   a positive feedback loop

   a negative feedback loop

   • 2025 November 13, Kamala Thiagarajan, “If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!”, in NPR‎^[1]:

     It's like a positive feedback loop, Nabi says: Feeling cared for makes you want to care for others.

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: bucle de realimentació m
• Finnish: noidankehä, takaisinkytkentä
• French: boucle de rétroaction f
• Georgian: უკუკავშირის მარყუჟი (uḳuḳavširis marq̇uži)
• German: Rückkopplungsschleife f
• Italian: circuito di retroazione m
• Polish: pętla sprzężenia zwrotnego f
• Spanish: bulce retroalimentario m, circuito retroalimenticio m

See also

• positive feedback
• negative feedback
• virtuous cycle
• vicious cycle
• arms race

References

• “feedback loop”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.