Feedback Mechanism

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-010837",
  "term": "Feedback Mechanism",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A sequence of interactions in which the final interaction influences the original one.\n\n2. Factors which increase or amplify (positive feedback) or decrease (negative feedback) the rate of a process. An example of positive climatic feedback is the ice-albedo feedback.\n\n3. The process through which a system is controlled, changed, or modulated in response to its own output. Positive feedback results in amplification of the system output; negative feedback reduces the output of a system.",
  "references": [
    "NASA Sustainable Development Indicators Glossary",
    "Glossary of Climate Change Terms",
    "EPA EV-Natural Environments-Natural Phenomena"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/feedback-mechanism/"
}