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Definition of Positive feedback

1. Noun. Feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input.

Definition of Positive feedback

1. Noun. (physics) 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 ¹

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Literary usage of Positive feedback

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"This shows that calcium acts in positive feedback at submicromolar concentrations in making calcium waves. Calcium facilitates the action of IP3 at its ..."

2. Profiting from Chaos: Using Chaos Theory for Market Timing, Stock Selection by Tonis Vaga (1994)
"The concept of positive feedback is central to all nonlinear dynamic systems ... Hence Brian Arthur's concept of positive feedback in economic markets is of ..."

3. The Home-Based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on by Steve Weber (2005)
"Sellers who are able to build a positive feedback record have a huge advantage over competitors and can command higher prices than lower- ranked competitors ..."

4. Supervising Child Protective Services Caseworkers by Thomas D. Morton, Marsha K. Salus (1994)
"For example, not all individuals are comfortable with praise or positive feedback. When uncomfortable with a situation, the same individuals may avoid it or ..."

5. The Future of Privacy by Perri 6 (1998)
"Both assume rather simple mindedly that the future of privacy will be shaped by a single kind of causal mechanism - namely, that of positive feedback. ..."

6. Econometric Model of the Urban Opportunity Structure: Cumulative Causation by George C. Galster (1999)
"As shown in figure 4, there are two means by which population changes can influence subsequent changes in employment rates: a positive feedback loop through ..."

7. The Long Game: How Regulators and Companies Can Both Win by Paul Skidmore, Jake Chapman, Paul Miller (2003)
"Where the effect of feedback is to amplify or reinforce the initial change, they are described as positive feedback loops. Positive in this sense does not ..."

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