Wiktionary
n. (plural of feedback English) vb. (context proscribed English) (en-third-person singular of: feedback)
Usage examples of "feedbacks".
And we can even find evidence of positive feedbacks, in the form of escalations (or, looking at it from the other direction, degenerations) in meaning.
Positive feedback systems are used less than negative feedback, both by engineers and by living bodies, but nevertheless it is positive feedbacks that are the subject of this chapter.
The importance of positive feedbacks in international affairs is implicitly recognized in the jargon word 'escalation': when we say that the Middle East is a 'powder keg', and when we identify 'flashpoints'.
In such a competitive climate, we might expect positive feedbacks to get going.
It is, for instance, worth laying out a considerable sum of money to promote a book or record up to the point where it just 'goes critical', because you then don't need to spend so much money on promoting it thereafter: the positive feedbacks take over and do the work of publicity for you.
But the precise mechanisms by which the positive feedbacks work in the two cases are different.