negative feedback

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   feedback in opposite phase with (decreasing) the input

   Broaderfeedback

Questions about negative feedback

What does negative feedback mean?

negative feedback means "feedback in opposite phase with (decreasing) the input".

Is negative feedback a common word?

negative feedback is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.