{
  "id": "feedback.communication",
  "term": "feedback",
  "sense": "communication",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "feedback",
  "domain": "communication",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "information that is sent back to the source about a change that occurred",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "information.knowledge",
      "send.communication",
      "source.origin",
      "change.process",
      "back.spatial",
      "occurs.event"
    ],
    "interaction": "information about a change is sent back to its source through communication.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directional return of information",
      "response to change",
      "closed communication loop"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The thermostat in a home heating system switches the furnace off when the room reaches 22°C.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "After the 2008 financial crash, banks reduced lending in response to rising loan defaults.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue adjusted its chess strategy during Game 6 based on Kasparov's previous moves.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "interaction.process",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "blind.unobserved",
    "delay.timing",
    "despair.state",
    "ecosystem.interdependent",
    "lag.temporal",
    "regulation.control",
    "reputation.social-model",
    "shame.emotional",
    "status.social",
    "surprise.reaction"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "feedback",
    "feedbacks"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing components 'back.spatial' and 'occurs.event' to align record with definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-feedback.communication"
}