feed back
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.65 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To return electrical current generated by some means (such as solar panels, regenerative braking) to the power grid.
Example Sentences
- "His employees fed back a lot more than he wanted."
- "Customers fed back their complaints and some praise."
- "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."