Anticipatory vs Feedforward - What's the difference?
anticipatory | feedforward |
Characterized by anticipation.
(sometimes countable) An anticipatory response to expected changes in the environment of a system
*{{quote-book, 1991, Christopher Hodgkinson, Educational Leadership: The Moral Art
, passage=The continuum is dynamic through the action of modulating feedbacks and feedforwards .}}
(nonstandard) To respond in advance
*{{quote-book, 2002, David Beckett & Paul J. Hager, Life, Work and Learning
, passage=Contingency is handled by, for example, managers and nurses, through feedforwarding , that is, by acting anticipatively, and thereby raising the prospect of modifying not just the practical means toward an end, but of modifying the end itself.}}
As an adjective anticipatory
is characterized by anticipation.As a noun feedforward is
an anticipatory response to expected changes in the environment of a system.As a verb feedforward is
to respond in advance.anticipatory
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Adjective
(head)- The children were all wearing anticipatory grins in the minutes before the cake was served.
feedforward
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Alternative forms
*feed-forward *feed forward (verb only)Noun
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