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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The section of a control system that allows for feedback and self-correction and that adjusts its operation according to differences between the actual and the desired or optimal output.

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  • noun a circuit that feeds back some of the output to the input of a system

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