feed back
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editfeed back (third-person singular simple present feeds back, present participle feeding back, simple past and past participle fed back or (nonstandard) feeded back)
- (transitive) To provide informational feedback to.
- His employees fed back a lot more than he wanted.
- (transitive) To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
- Customers fed back their complaints and some praise.
- To return electrical current generated by some means (such as solar panels, regenerative braking) to the power grid.
- 2023 July 26, David Clough, “Technology progression defines Class 93”, in RAIL, number 988, page 54:
- Regenerative braking is retained. Like rheostatic braking, this uses the traction motors to provide a braking effort, but the current developed is fed back into the overhead catenary rather than dissipated through resistance banks.