Usually means: Enhances or amplifies initial effect.
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  1. positive feedback: Merriam-Webster
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  3. positive feedback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  2. positive feedback: Medical dictionary

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  1. positive feedback: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See positive_feedbacks as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (positive feedback)

noun:  A situation where some function of the output of a system, process, or mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends to increase any divergence of the output from its initial value.
noun:  (physics) A feedback loop in which the output of a system is amplified with a net positive gain and added to the input signal before the main amplifier.
noun:  (figurative) Feedback which builds upon previous feedback.

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