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Output vs Feedback - What's the difference?

output | feedback |

As nouns the difference between output and feedback

is that output is production; quantity produced, created, or completed while feedback is critical assessment on information produced.

As verbs the difference between output and feedback

is that output is to produce, create, or complete while feedback is 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.

output

English

(wikipedia output)

Noun

  • (economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • (computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer.

    • Related terms

    * input

    Verb

  • (economics) to produce, create, or complete.
    • We output 1400 units last year.
  • (computing) to send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer.
    • When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.

    Anagrams

    * English verbs with base form identical to past participle

    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". ----