feedforward
verbEtymology From feed + forward. Formed by analogy with feedback.
1
Nonstandard To respond in advance
- Contingency is handled by, for example, managers and nurses, through feedforwarding, that is, by acting anticipatively, and thereby raising the prospect of modifying not just the practical means toward an end, but of modifying the end itself.2002, David Beckett, Paul J. Hager, Life, Work and Learning, →ISBN, page 36:
- Synonyms
- anticipate, proact
- Derived terms
- feedforward control, feedforward neural network
- Related terms
- feedback