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Forcing vs Feedback - What's the difference?

forcing | feedback |

As nouns the difference between forcing and feedback

is that forcing is (horticulture) the art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed while feedback is critical assessment on information produced.

As verbs the difference between forcing and feedback

is that forcing is while feedback is (music) to generate the high-frequency sound by allowing a speaker to cause vibration of the sound generator of a musical instrument connected by an amplifier to the speaker.

forcing

English

Noun

  • (horticulture) The art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed
  • (photography) An extension in the development time of an underexposed negative in order to bring out detail
  • (set theory) A technique used to prove the consistency of certain axioms in set theory. See .
  • (climatology, countable) The net flux of energy in or out of a system; the net change in an energy balance.

    • Derived terms

    * radiative forcing

    Verb

    (head)

    • feedback

    English

    (wikipedia feedback)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Critical assessment on information produced
    • After you hand in your essays, I will give both grades and feedback .
  • (cybernetics, systems) The signal that is looped back to control a system within itself.
  • The high-pitched howling noise heard when there's a loop between a microphone and a speaker.

    • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often used with "feedback": positive, negative, delayed, linear, nonlinear, etc.

    Synonyms

    * (noise) Larsen effect * (noise) howlback * (noise) howlround

    Derived terms

    * biofeedback * feedbacker * feedback loop * feedback control * howlback * negative feedback * positive feedback

    Coordinate terms

    * feedforward * buffering

    Descendants

    * Spanish: (calque)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (music) To generate the high-frequency sound by allowing a speaker to cause vibration of the sound generator of a musical instrument connected by an amplifier to the speaker.
    • The show ended with a riot of feedbacking guitars.
  • To provide informational feedback to.
    • His employees feedbacked him a lot more than he wanted.
  • To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
    • Customers feedbacked their complaints and some praise.

    Usage notes

    * Some are likely to prefer "feed back" and its inflected forms "feeds back", "feeding back", or "fed back". ----