positive feedback

Definitions of positive feedback
  1. noun
    feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input
    synonyms: regeneration
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    types:
    vicious circle, vicious cycle
    one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first
    type of:
    feedback
    the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output
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