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Positive feedback

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Noun
  1. 1
    A situation where some function of the output of a system, process, or mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends to increase any divergence of the output from its initial value.; A feedback loop in which the output of a system is amplified with a net positive gain and added to the input signal before the main amplifier. uncountable
  2. 2
    feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input wordnet
  3. 3
    A situation where some function of the output of a system, process, or mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends to increase any divergence of the output from its initial value.; Feedback which builds upon previous feedback. figuratively, uncountable

    "The decision to include wild cereals in the collection may have been initially a random act of gathering, but once that decision had been made it triggered a runaway system of positive feedback in which the entire culture was transformed."

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