How to say "feedback" in Japanese

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  • noun, suru verb, transitive verbFeedback in the everyday sense: comments or evaluations on a product or on a person's performance or work. Typical when a manager responds to an employee's draft or users react to a new product.
  • 帰還きかんCommon
    noun, suru verb, transitive verbThe technical sense: feedback in an electronic circuit or a biological system, where a system's output is returned to its input. Not the word for comments on someone's work; that is フィードバック.

Use 「フィードバック」 for feedback in the everyday sense — comments or evaluations on a product or a person's performance — and 帰還 for the technical sense in electronic circuits and biological systems.

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Japanese equivalents
  • フィードバックfeedback (on a product, person's performance, etc.)
  • 帰還きかんfeedback (in an electronic circuit, biological system, etc.)

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